TENEMENT DISTRICT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Tenement district

... mother was a good housekeeper, not afraid of work, has no idea of the attitude of half the housewives of his district. Having been made as a boy "to get the dustpan and brush and sweep up his whittlings," he does not realize that these houses in the tenement district have no dustpans, and that no one would bend his back to sweep up litter if there were. It is all swept into the alley or the street. Cheap, long-handled dustpans would be valuable sanitary implements. As ...

— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards