The City That Was

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PUBLIC SCHOOL ADJOINING SLAUGHTER-PEN, 1865
THE CITY THAT WAS
By STEPHEN SMITH, A. M., M. D., LL. D.
Commissioner of the Metropolitan Board of Health, 1868–1870; Commissioner of the Board of Health of New York, 1870–1875
Published by FRANK ALLABEN Number Three West Forty-Second Street, New York
Copyright, 1911, by Frank Allaben
To the Memory of Dorman Bridgman Eaton
My thanks are due especially to Mr. Frank Allaben and my son, Mr. Sidney Smith, for their service in carrying this book through the press.
Stephen Smith.
The story of a great life-saving social revolution, the mightiest in the nineteenth century and one of the most momentous in the history of civilization, is told here for the first time. It is told from the standpoint of the transformation of the City of New York, by a chief actor in the event.