Healing the Sick City: Local Guides, Visiting Nurses, and Vernaculars of Pain on New York's Lower East Side
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2022
Abstract
Lillian Wald brought public health nursing to New York City’s congested Lower East Side in summer 1893, where she recorded tenement dwellers’ suffering from cuts, burns, breaks, deaths, illness, and childbirth. Together, nurses traveling streets, alleys, rooftops, and hallways, alongside dwellers acting as “local guides,” inaugurated vernacular mappings. Drawing on letters Wald wrote to her benefactor, Jacob Schiff, in July 1893, describing visiting, cleaning, healing, and connecting, this article uncovers a spatial dimension to pain that invites historians of urban America to discover the sick city.
Publication Title
Journal of Urban History
First Page
285
Last Page
301
Recommended Citation
Erin Cunningham & Joel E. Black,
Healing the Sick City: Local Guides, Visiting Nurses, and Vernaculars of Pain on New York's Lower East Side,
48
J. Urban Hist.
285
(2022).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/1155
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