The local death rates, especially from preventable diseases, are so unduly high as to suggest that the exceptional wholesomeness of Washington's better sections is offset by bad conditions in her poorer neighborhoods.
Roosevelt highlights the disparity in health conditions between different neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.
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