First Report of a Committee on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Classes in the City of New York: With Remedial SuggestionsJohn F. Trow, 1853 - 32 Seiten |
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30 per cent 49 ANN STREET afford apartments Archibald Hall basements bedroom BOOK DUE BOSTON Class CANCELLED WIDENER capitalists and landlords cellars character Charles Charles Merrill City Inspector's cleanliness Committee construction crowded Cyrus Curtis Daniel Fisher Daniel French debased decency degradation disease DISTRICT.-E DISTRICT.-James domiciliary dwellings emigrants endanger public health enforced erected facts families feet filthy foregoing habitations Harvard College health and comfort HORATIO ALLEN Improving the Condition increase influences inmates investments James JAMES BROWN JAMES LENOX James Reeve John Davidson John Endicott Jonathan Sturges June 13th laboring classes legislative less live M.D. OF BOSTON ments Miller miserable neglect NEW-YORK number of persons occupied offensive OVERDUE FEE owners pent Peter Burnett poor present pure air REMEDIAL SUGGESTIONS REPORT respect SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN sanitary condition sanitary regulations sinks Sub-letting suffer Supervisory Council tenant houses tenements rent Thomas tion ventilation Ward Wetmore William wretched yard
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Seite 11 - A filthy, squalid, unwholesome dwelling, in which none of the decencies common to society, even in the lowest stage of civilization, are, or can be observed, tends to make every dweller in such a hovel regardless of the feelings and happiness of each other, selfish and sensual; and the connection is obvious between the constant indulgence of appetites and passions,
Seite 2 - persons, in a space of about 180 feet, by perhaps a depth of 50 feet on each side. The pestiferous stench and filth of these pent-up tenements exceed description. "In one room," says a Visitor, "six people are living, with hens scratching about on the bed. Every corner of these buildings is occupied—cellars and garrets.
Seite 11 - that the wonder to me is, not that so many of the laboring classes crowd to the liquor shops, but that so many are found struggling to make their wretched abodes a home for their family.
Seite 20 - Pure air, light and water being indispensable to health and life, if tenements are so badly constructed as to preclude a proper supply of these essential elements, the law should interpose for the protection of the sufferers, and either close up such dwellings, or cause them to be so remodelled as to be fit for human habitations.
Seite 11 - That the depressed and low condition of health in which these people are found, induces habits of intemperance, unfortunately so common
Seite 2 - houses on either side of the street, fronting each other, with as many more in the rear, containing in all about 250 families, and not less than