Water Supply, Waste Disposal, and the Culture of Privatism in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American City

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Ogle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
American City

scholarly journals The Best Advertisement a City Can Have: Public Health Services in Vancouver, 1886-1888

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret W. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Hospital Waste ◽  
Health Inspection

Vancouver was unlike many nineteenth centry Canadian cities in that it readily undertook to provide reasonably extensive public health services — a city hospital, waste disposal and drainage, a modern water supply, and health inspection. Provision of those services got fairly under way in the city's first two years, at which time (as later), those interested in the city's growth, who directed public expenditure there as in most cities of the time, encouraged up-to-date public health services as signs of municipal progress likely to attract additional settlers and capital. Public expenditures relating to health were supported as attractants which augmented the city's natural climatic advantages.

Lessons from the Past: Sicilian Mafiosi in New York City and Rosario, circa 1880–1940

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Varese
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
American City ◽  
North American City ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of

From the mid-nineteenth century, many Sicilians, including members of the mafia, were on the move. After sketching the contours of the mafia in Sicily in the nineteenth century, this chapter outlines the parallel history of Italian migration and mafia activities in New York City and Rosario, Argentina, and offers an analytic account of the diverging outcomes. Only in the North American city did a mafia that resembled the Sicilian one emerge. The Prohibition provided an enormous boost to both the personnel and power of Italian organized crime. The risk of punishment was low, the gains to be made were enormous, and there was no social stigma attached to this trade.

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