Of the 55 or so reports of "patient dumping," principally in the dilapidated quarter known as Skid Row, only a handful are being investigated for criminal activity, said Rocky Delgadillo, the city attorney.

As smoke pots simulating fires spewed yellow fumes from the buildings, military trucks rumbled today into Shirahige Nishi, a dilapidated quarter of Tokyo, rushing in olive-uniformed reinforcements for civilian rescue squads overwhelmed by the wounded.

Spending 18 hours in cramped, dilapidated quarters with two bored young children wasn't the least of our discomfort.

The aged are often trapped without elevators in the dilapidated quarters of the old city.

Home Improvement for Academy Satellite Academy, the alternative high school that was forced last fall to move into dilapidated, rodent-infested temporary quarters, will finally be getting a permanent home in September.

Not only were wounded soldiers living in dilapidated quarters - now known as Building 18 - but it was also revealed that the transition process for many soldiers from DoD to VA was broken - both for health care and disability benefits.

"It works against good family life when you live in poor, dilapidated quarters," said Bishop Fiorenza, whose Galveston-Houston Diocese has worked with a Baptist congregation in Houston to renovate apartments there for poor people.

Taken together, these plans would end a long, fallow period for the gritty blocks around Peck Slip, a diminutive and dilapidated quarter that is redolent of history, reeking of fish and stubbornly resistant to change.

They reached the outskirts of the town in a dilapidated quarter, far from the civic center.

The two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command on Thursday, following disclosures that wounded soldiers being treated as outpatients there were living in dilapidated quarters and enduring long waits for treatment.