Definition of tenement house
: apartment building especially : one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city
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Recent Examples on the Web If influenza develops in a hotel or tenement house, the cases must be reported at once.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, "From the Archives: Parallels to the 1918 flu pandemic are evident 102 years later," 19 Oct. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived," 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived," 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived," 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived," 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived," 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived," 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets.
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Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, "How Epidemics of the Past Forced Americans to Promote Health—and Ended Up Improving Life in This Country," 2 Apr. 2020
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