Stephen Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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And the result is, as might have been anticipated, the dependent class, numbering fully one half of the people, is crowded into tenant houses which occupy an area of not more than two square miles, such crowding amounts literally to packing.
For example, it is estimated that there are three contiguous blocks of tenant houses which contain a larger population than Fifth Avenue, which
Or again, if Fifth Avenue had front and rear tenant houses as densely packed as tenant houses generally are, there would be a population of a hundred thousand on that single avenue.
A single tenant court in the fourth ward is arranged for the packing of one thousand persons.
A resident of the same ward reports that on a piece of ground two hundred and forty feet by one hundred and fifty, there are twenty tenant houses occupied by one hundred and eleven families, five stables, a large soap and candle factory, and a tan yard, the receptacle of green hides.
The filth and stench of this locality are beyond any power of description.
In general it may be stated that the average number of families to a house among the poor is seven or about thirty five persons.
It is necessary also to make a single explanation to render more apparent the bearing of the facts developed.
For the purposes of sanitary inquiry, the causes of disease are divided into those which are inevitable and those which are often.
are avoidable or removable, and hence it follows that diseases and deaths are divided into those which are inevitable and those which are preventable.
For example, of unavoidable causes of disease, we have vicissitudes of weather, accidents, old age, physical degenerations, etc.
Of avoidable or removable causes of disease, we have those conditions around or within our dwellings or places of business or resort, errors in our mode of living, etc, which vitiate health, or rather tend to diseases, and yet which can be removed or changed by human agency.
For example, a country residence may be most favorably located for health, and yet
and yet decaying vegetable matter in the cellar or a cesspool so situated as to allow the gaseous emanations to be diffused through the house will expose all the inmates to fevers, diarrhea and dysentery.
There would be preventable diseases, and all the deaths therefrom would be preventable, and hence unnecessary deaths.
In like manner, in cities, all diseases and deaths, due to causes which human agencies can remove, are preventable, and it is a melancholy fact that fifty percent of the mortality of cities is estimated to be due to such causes and is hence.
Unnecessary.
In reviewing the result of this inspection, I shall call your attention only to the more patent causes of disease found existing and to the preventable diseases discovered and their relation to these causes.
In this evidence, you will find ample proof that radical reforms are required in the health organizations of New York.
I will first notice the causes of disease which exist external to our dwellings and which are the most readily susceptible of remedy.
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