City of Regina Archives Photograph Collection, CORA-E-7-15

Title: House in Germantown
Date: 1927
Retrieval Number: CORA-E-7.15
Extent: 1 B&W print mounted on album page: 12 cm x 8 cm
Scope and Content Note: Run-down house in Germantown with “Insanitary” notice
Access Restrictions: None Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: Public Health Album
Historical Note: The Public Health Department in Regina was taken to task in 1913 by J.S. Woodsworth, the then-director of All Peoples' Mission in Winnipeg (and later a federal politician and co-founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation – the CCF – forerunner to the New Democratic Party – the NDP.) Sanitary conditions in Germantown were sub-par, and newspapers began to lobby for change. The Methodist and Presbyterian churches commissioned Woodsworth to conduct a social survey of the city. The Public Health Department of the City of Regina responded by publishing the public health bulletin in two languages other than English.