Miscellaneous articles, publications, etc., entitled: East Harlem 100 Worst Buildings Committee, New York City "Freedom Town' Snob Zoning Snubs Moderate-income People, Page 1097 1163 1124 1017 1300 1323 "He Predicts Abandonment of 800,000 Classier Pads," from the New York Daily News, Mar. 5, 1970. 1003 "How Do Homes Become Just Plain Slums?" from the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 23, 1970__. 1317 "Is Yours Next? Is Abandonment Real?" from the New York Times, Sept. 21, 1970. 1289 "Outbreak of Viral Meningitis Hospitalizes 50 Bronx Children," from the New York Times, Aug. 13, 1970_ 976 "Pioneering Builders Find Pioneering Buyers," from the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 25, 1970___. 1320 "Many a Wolf on the Way to Grandma's House," from the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 24, 1970 1318 Proposed revisions in rent control, New York City.. 1335 Rent control and its impact on housing in New York City. 1324 1049 National Accreditation Council for Environmental Health Curricula, 1139 979 New York City children playing in backed-up sewage-Photos by the New York Times. 982 "Nonfatal Meningitis Attack Stirs Concern Here," from the New York Times, Aug. 14, 1970__ 977 "Seventy Percent of the People on 2% of the Land," from the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 22, 1970-- 1314 "So You Want a House?. Forget It!" from the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 19-21, 1970"The City May Shiver Over Mideast Crisis," from the New York Daily News, Sept. 14, 1970___. 1311 1009 Selected tables: Table 1.-Number of violations on record with Department of Building, as of August 1969, in buildings under study__. 965 Table 2.-Estimated occupied housing inventory, by major category, 1022 Table 3.-Selected characteristics of primary families and individuals in renter-occupied units by income category and control status, New York City, 1968-- 1023 Table 4.-Estimation of housing abandonment, New York City, 1006 Table 5.-Controlled renter-occupied housing units, by condition and plumbing facilities, New York City, 1960-68___ 1025 Table 6.-Rents, operating costs and tax rates, New York City, 1948-68 1028 Table 7.-Economics of a rent-controlled building, New York City, 1969___. 1029 Table 8.-Turnover of controlled units by type of structure, New 1030 Table 9.-Family incomes and gross rents, Brooklyn, N.Y., and 8 1033 Table 10.-Changing demographic structure of New York City, 1950-68__. 1034 Table 11.-Applications filed, permits issued, and completions of multiple dwellings in New York City, 1959-68-. 1036 Table 12.-Total capital budget outlays, total rent adjustments---. 1047 V Selected tables-Continued Table I.-Itemizes list of essential services provided in an adequately maintained apartment house. Page 997 Table II.—Tenement preventive maintenance and environmental control.. 998 Table II-1. Changes in the housing inventory, New York City, 1941-67_. 1007 Table III.-Deaths of children from falls from heights, by site of occurrence and age, New York, 1965-69-. Table IV.-The early diagnosis of an abandoned building-. 999 1000 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1970 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 1220, New Senate Office Building, Senator George McGovern (chairman of the select committee), presiding. Present: Senator McGovern. Staff present: Kenneth Schlossberg, staff director; Gerald Cassidy, general counsel; Nancy Amidei, professional staff member; Clarence V. McKee, minority professional staff member, David Cohen, minority professional staff member. Senator McGOVERN. The committee will be in order. We will begin our session. Since the select committee began its investigations late in 1968, we have made considerable progress in feeding the hungry, particularly in improving the food stamp and school lunch programs. But the mandate of this committee extends beyond the problem of nutrition alone, to related human needs. As the committee's hearings have progressed, especially its field hearings, I have become increasingly concerned about the terrible conditions of housing and sanitation under which many of our people suffer daily. I have wondered how far the benefits of better nutrition alone would take those people. When the President sent his message to the Congress last year, he noted this very problem, stating that "special efforts must be made to see that the benefit of proper foods are not lost amidst poor health and sanitary conditions." The purpose of the hearings we begin today is to examine what special efforts are being made now and what efforts still need to be made. We are extremely fortunate today in having as our opening witnesses representatives associated with the Tufts-Delta IIealth Center in Mound Bayou, Miss. They have been leaders in this area of environmental health, thinking of health care in its broadest possible terms. I understand that the director of their project, Dr. Jack Geiger of Tufts University in Boston, is going to lead off their presentation. Perhaps you would like to bring your colleagues with you and as we move along we can direct questions to various members of the panel. Maybe it would be useful for each person to identify who he is and what role he plays in the efforts. (903) Dr. WEEKS. I am Dr. David Weeks, deputy director and clinical director of the Tufts-Delta Health Center. Mr. JAMES. I am Andrew B. James, director, Tufts-Delta Health Center. Mrs. COLEMAN. I am Mrs. Coleman, member of the North Bolivar County Health Council. Dr. GEIGER. I am Dr. Jack Geiger, project director, Tufts-Delta Health Center. Mrs. DORSEY. I am Mrs. L. C. Dorsey, director of environmental health. Mr. YOUNG. I am Louis Young, Rosedale representative, North Bolivar Co-Op Farm. Mr. MORRIS. I am Rogers Morris, director of the division of environmental health. Mr. HATCH. I am John Hatch, director of community health action. Senator McGOVERN. Dr. Geiger. STATEMENT OF DR. JACK GEIGER, PROJECT DIRECTOR, TUFTSDELTA HEALTH CENTER Dr. GEIGER. My task today, Senator, is briefly really to set the stage for my colleagues here to talk with you about our concerns and our experience with environmental health, to present a background for the introduction to the testimony you will hear from these physicians and environmental engineers, farm cooperative directors, community organizers, and citizens of the area in which we live and work. We have, over the past—almost 5 years now-developed and shared an attitude toward terms like health and terms like the environment, based on the real test that we have had to face in the work of the TuftsDelta Center, the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative, and the health center. I would like to add as a start that our purpose here is not primarily to be demonstrating or describing the details of these particular programs or these particular institutions, but, rather, to present them as representative of the kinds of attempts that have to be made and that have been attempted by many other organizations in the area, even before we came to solve some of the problems. I think it would be useful first in illustrating what we mean, what we must mean, by health and by the environment, to tell you a little bit about the area in which we have been working, an area that is similar to thousands of other rural counties in the United States, particularly in the rural South. We serve the overwhelmingly poor, mostly black population of northern Bolivar County, Miss., 100 miles south of Memphis. Fourteen thousand people are in some 500 square miles, some of the richest land and some of the poorest people in the United States. This is the area where cotton is king and people are surplus, where the mechanization of cotton agriculture, the acreage restriction programs, the enforcement of the agricultural minimum wage, and other features of the social, political, and racial order have reduced black Americans to the status of unemployed, sick, hungry squatters on the land. For black families in this area, the median income when we began was $900 per year per family. That is about $2.45 a day or about 75 |