Between 1996 and 2002, court records show, 14 Lowndes County residents were arrested and charged with using an “insanitary” septic system or were charged with a related violation.
The houses were overcrowded, dark, insanitary, without privacy and generally unattractive.
Only three of the laundries had wet floors; only three were dirty; only one had an insanitary lavatory and toilet room.
The granting to corporations and councils power to close insanitary houses, and to make their owners repair them.
Many of them died in the great insanitary sheds in which p. 130they were confined, and others lost their reason.
Ill-furnished and insanitary abodes drive forth their inmates to seek the brightness and comfort of the saloon.