Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats

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309 Index A Abbott, Edith, 62–63 aboriginal Americans, 233n9 activists, 6, 9, 11, 58, 87, 140; in Baltimore , 95, 116–18, 127; in Berkeley, 183; black artists/poets as, 168–69, 146fig., 147fig.; in Chicago, 32–35, 120, 180–81, 198–202, 204; and grassroots extermination campaigns, 166–69, 263n95; and Horner Mothers’ Guild, 198–202, 204; in Houston, 168; and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), 183, 186, 198–202, 204; in Milwaukee, 163, 165; in New York City, 107, 150–51, 155–57, 166; in Philadelphia, 167–68; in Washington , D.C., 166, 214. See also civil rights movement; protests; reform/ reformers, urban; names of activists and organizations Addams, Jane, 225n33 Adirondacks, 245n117 advertisements: for appliances, 229n95; for chlordane, 100, 110; for DDT, 90, 94, 96, 110; for HCN fumigation, 21fig.; and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), 183; for PCH mixed with DDT, 94 advice writers, 61, 217n1. See also names of advice writers aerosols, 183, 187, 190 aesthetic injury level, 184, 187 aesthetic pests, 158–60, 175 affluent people: in Baltimore, 116; and bedbugs, 5, 57–62, 80, 107, 205–8, 210– 11, 213; and body burdens of pesticides, 169, 191–92; in Chicago, 40, 120; and DDT, 90; domestic staff of, 59–60, 62, 80, 116; and flies, 39–41; and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), 186–87, 198; and over-the-counter remedies, 211; and rats, 116, 120, 153, 168–69; in Washington , D.C., 39–40, 43 affordable housing, 9; in Chicago, 188, 199, 201; in Milwaukee, 176; “sanitary housing,” 29, 37, 42, 53–54, 226n46; in Washington, D.C., 5–6, 29, 37, 42, 53–54, 226n46. See also public housing African-Americans. See blacks Afro-American newspaper, 119, 125, 132, 135 Agarwal, Arun, 262n88 agricultural pests, 7, 139; biological control of, 43–44, 181–82; federal funding for control of, 158–60, 163, 175, 191–92, 271n58; and HCN fumigation, 66–68, 73; and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), 181–85; and methyl parathion, 202; and resistance, 182 Albany (N.Y.), 156 Aldrich, Sherman, 75–79, 195, 214 allergies: from bedbugs, 55, 64; from cockroaches, 11, 86–87, 189–91, 199–200, 203, 208, 269n40 alleys, 6, 14; alley homes, 36–37, 39–40, 42–43, 49, 53–54, 163; in Baltimore, 111–12, 115, 119, 125–26, 129, 131, 133–34, 310 Index 250n71, 148fig.; and bedbugs, 62; in Chicago, 34, 38, 120, 122; “Chinch Row”/”Chinch Street,” 62; and flies, 28, 34, 36–40, 42–43, 49, 53–54; night soil left in, 34, 36; and rats, 111–12, 115, 119–20, 122, 125–26, 129, 131, 133–34, 137, 161, 250n71, 148fig.; in Washington, D.C., 28, 36–40, 42–43, 49, 53–54, 62 Altgeld Gardens (Chicago), 180 American Civic Association (ACA), 45 American Civil Liberties Union, 181 American Home magazine, 95 American Public Health Association Conference, 73 amputations, 115 Amsterdam News, 150–53, 155, 167, 174, 258n31 Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (Washington, D.C.), 167 Anderson, Paul, 208 anemia, 64 anthrax, 64 antibiotics, 154 anticoagulants, 136, 170–74, 265n123; “second-generation,” 173–74 anti-Semitism, 263n95 ants, 91 ANTU (alpha-napthyl thiourea), 124–28, 130, 135–36, 250n70, 255n131; chemical formula of, 127; field trials of, 125–28; self-emetic property of, 124–25; warfarin compared to, 170 apartments, 4; in Baltimore, 95, 133, 193– 94; and bedbugs, 5–6, 68–69, 71, 74–75, 78, 80, 275n8; in Chicago, 69, 76, 78, 80, 181, 187, 189, 197, 199; and chlordane , 100, 102, 104; and cockroaches, 7, 69, 83, 86, 89, 95–98, 100, 102, 104–6, 108, 168, 181, 187, 189, 193–94, 197; and DDT, 95–96; focus apartments, 194; and HCN fumigation, 68–69, 71, 80, 91; and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), 182, 193; in Madison (Wis.), 6; and methyl parathion disaster, 202–3, 210–11; in New York City, 83, 152, 159; and rats, 152, 168; in Washington, D.C., 5–6. See also public housing; tenements Apple, Rima, 230n100 appliances: advertisements for, 229n95; and bedbugs, 59–60; and cockroaches, 94, 96, 102, 104, 106, 193–94; and DDT, 90, 94, 96 arsenic, 58, 87, 113 arsenicals, 124 artists, black, 168, 146fig., 147fig. Ashliman, D. L., 246n6 Ashton, Daniel, 172–73 Associated Charities of Washington, 53 Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP), 49–51, 54, 231n113 asthma, 11, 189–90, 199–200, 208, 211, 258n32, 269n40; mechanical respirators for, 189–90 Atlas, John, 181 automobiles, 37, 52, 54, 101, 237n92 B babies. See infants bacilli...