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Chapter IX: Health

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106. Ex-soldier, released from army hospital, gets
compensation, drinks much.

107. Italian bricklayer, rheumatism, gets aid from union,
family in Italy, sons in war.

108. Mental case, talks to self, attracts much attention on
street, loud and vulgar.

117. Teamster, thirty-six, raised in slum, unemployable with
locomotor ataxia, peddles pencils.

121. Chicago boy, does not go home, needs medical attention
for feet and eyes, gambles.

122. Boy tramp, great wanderer, homosexual, intelligent, two
years on road.

139. Mortality statistics for Hobohemia for 1922,
non-resident cases.

147. Communication of Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, commissioner
of public health, concerning the health and medical care of
the homeless man in Chicago.

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