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Excerpt from Tenement House Reform in New York, 1834-1900: Prepared for the Tenement House Commission of 1900 The grave moral evils resulting from the indiscriminate mingling of the sexes in the same room are dwelt upon, as well as the fact that the causes of uncleanliness, poverty and sickness were not so much to be found in the "innate depravity" of the people as in the environment in which they were compelled to live. He urged that the City Legislature should prohibit the use of cellars as dwellings, and that the owner or lessee of every tenement house should be required to keep the outdoor and indoor premises free and clean from everything likely to prove injurious to health, and that an immediate stop should be put to the practice of crowding so many human beings in such limited spaces, arguing that if there were any propriety in the law requiring ocean vessels to carry only a certain number of people, there was equal propriety in requiring that only a certain number of persons should occupy houses of this kind; and that, if a law regulating the construction of buildings in reference to fire was justifiable, one respecting the protection of the inmates from the influences of badly arranged houses and apartments should be enacted. In 1846 the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, a charitable society organized in 1843, took up the question of the housing of the poor people of the city, maintaining that bad housing was the main cause of most of the poverty and sickness that existed. In 1853 they appointed a special committee "to inquire into the sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and the practicability of devising measures for the comfort and healthfulness of their habitations." This Committee rendered a report of thirty-two printed pages in the fall of 1853, which was published in the annual report of the Association for that year. The state of affairs disclosed by their investigations was one which called for prompt and effective remedies, and its effect on the public mind should have been great, for it brought to light the gravest social evils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tenement reform in New York since 1901, Robert W. DeForest. The tenement house problem (being the general report of the Commission), R.W. DeForest, Lawrence Veiller. Tenement house reform in New York City, 1834-1900, Lawrence Veiller. Housing conditions in Buffalo, W.A. Douglas, Williams Lansing. Housing conditions and tenement laws in leading American cities, Lawrence Veiller. Housing conditions in leading European cities, W.E. Dwight. A statistical study of New York's tenement houses, Lawrence Veiller. The nonenforcement of the tenement house laws in new buildings, Lawrence Veiller. Tenement house fires in New York, Hugh Bonner, Lawrence Veiller. Tenement house fire-escapes in New York and Brooklyn, Hugh Bonner, Lawrence Veiller. Back to back tenements, Lawrence Veiller. Tenement house sanitation, A.L. Webster. Small houses for working-men, H.L. Cargill. Financial aspects of recent tenement house operations in New York, E.R.L. Gould. The speculative building of tenement houses, Lawrence Veiller. Tenement evils as seen by the tenements. Tenement evils as seen by an inspector. Tuberculosis and the tenement house problem, H.M. Biggs. The relation of tuberculosis to the tenement house problem, A.R. Guerard.- Vol. 2. Parks and playgrounds for tenement districts, Lawrence Veiller. Prostitution as a tenement house evil, J.B. Reynolds. Policy

Robert Weeks DeForest

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 634


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