Similar to New York, residents of East St. Louis have dealt with their fair share of health issues. However, East St. Louis was home to so many health-related inequities that many of its residents might have dreamed of moving to a low-income neighborhood in New York. East St. Louis was devastated by “sewage flowing into the streets, air polluted by local plants, high levels of lead detected in the soil, … [and] insufficient health care” (Kozol 25). This quote illustrates the extent of potential health problems that arise from terrible environmental conditions. Businesses close to the city did not care about the negative externalities they were producing. As a result, the city's inhabitants were forced to suffer. East St. Louis' child death problem is more serious than the dental problems of some New York children. East St. Louis ranked first out of 66 Illinois cities “for fetal death, first for premature birth and third for infant death. ...Hospital care is also lacking. There's no place to have a baby in East St. Louis. The infant mortality rate continues to increase” (Kozol 25). This shows the poor conditions that the residents had to endure. Without a place to properly deliver a baby, combined with the already poor environmental conditions, it is no wonder that infant and fetal death rates were so high. Unfortunately, the health problems didn't stop there. The residents of this city were malnourished and many were not immunized. “Added to these health problems are the poor nutrition of children here – the average daily expense for food in East St. Louis is $2.40 for a child – and the underimmunization of young children. Of 100 children recently interviewed in East St. Louis, 55 were incompletely vaccinated against polio, diphtheria, measles, and whooping cough” (Kozol 26). This quote continues to