...'those of this period wore built to a greater height in stories, there were more rear tenant houses erected back to back with other buildings correspondingly situated on parallel streets, and court« and alleys were more encroached upon and narrowed into unventilated, unlighted, and well-like...

...of Hygiene, and New York heard the truth for once. " Not only," it ran, " does filth, overcrowding, lack of privacy and domesticity, lack of ventilation...regulation still characterize the greater number of the tenements ; but they are built to a greater height in stories ; there are more rear houses built...

...supervision and of sanitary I regulation still characterize the greater number of j the tenements; but they are built to a greater ;| height in stories; there are more rear houses built , ¥ back to back with other buildings, correspondingly & situated on parallel streets;...