Editing Jane Addams (section)

===Documenting social illnesses===
Addams and her colleagues documented the communal geography of typhoid fever and reported that poor workers were bearing the brunt of the illness. She identified the political corruption and business avarice that caused the city bureaucracy to ignore health, sanitation, and building codes. Linking [[environmental justice]] and municipal reform, she eventually defeated the bosses and fostered a more equitable distribution of city services and modernized inspection practices.<ref>Platt (2000)</ref> Addams spoke of the "undoubted powers of public recreation to bring together the classes of a community in the keeping them apart."<ref>Addams, 1909, p. 96</ref> Addams worked with the [[Chicago Board of Health]] and served as the first vice-president of the Playground Association of America.