Stephen Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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The work was then prosecuted with vigour and without interruption to the middle of November when it was completed.
The inspectors met regularly every Saturday evening to report to a committee on the part of the council the progress of their work and to receive advice and instruction in regard to all questions of a doubtful character.
On the completion of the inspection, each inspector was required to prepare a final report embodying the general results of his labours.
These reports have all been properly required.
Collated under the direction of the association, and are now passing through the press.
They will soon appear in an octavo volume of about four hundred pages, largely illustrated with maps and diagrams.
It will be the first interior view of the sanitary and social condition of the population of New York, and will abundantly demonstrate the fact that, though a great
great and prosperous commercial center, she does not afford happy homes to hundreds of thousands.
Before proceeding to an analysis of this work, it will be necessary to notice the topographical peculiarities of our city and the distribution of its population.
New York is an island having an area of about thirty four square miles, inclusive of its parks.
Unlike Philadelphia,
London and most other large cities, which have a background of hundreds of square miles upon which to extend according to the exigencies of the population or of business, New York is limited in its power of expansion and must accommodate itself to its given area.
While it is true that a large business population will gather upon the adjacent shores, it is equally true that these non-residents will be of the better class.
The labouring population will, for the most part, remain upon the island and must be accommodated in the city proper as they are compelled to live near their work.
New York has, thus far, grown without any control or supervision until its population is estimated at one million of persons.
Of this number, at least one half are of the laboring and dependent classes compelled to live under such conditions as they find in their homes without any power either to change or improve them.
Following the natural law which governs the movements of such a population, the wealthier or independent class spreads itself with its business arrangements over the larger proportion of the area, and the poorer or dependent class is crowded into the smallest possible space.
Already New York has covered about eight of its thirty four square miles with the dwellings of a population not far from America.
of a million and all its commercial and manufacturing establishments.
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