Stephen Smith
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1,482 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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The inspector of the twentieth ward says During my inspection I reported a number which were filled, and at the same time in which need of repair as to hazard the lives of those who entered them.
The proximity of these places to the houses in many cases is a fact to which I would call your attention.
One instance of this kind I may state.
At a house in fortieth Street between Broadway and South
Seventh Avenue, the privy is situated about ten feet from the door, and there is another on a line ten feet from the first, and still another within ten feet of the last mentioned, making three privies within thirty feet, and two of these belonging to houses fronting on Broadway.
The offensive odor arising from these places contaminates the air of the houses in the vicinity.
This house is
House in fortieth Street is actually unfit to live in.
At the time of my inspection, the noxious gases from these privies were strongly perceptible in every part of the house.
The inspector of the seventeenth ward reports The privies are in most cases in the rear courtyard, in about two thirds of the houses the privies are connected with the sewer.
Overflowing privies are frequently found.
Sometimes they are located in a dark place, which, in all cases, must be considered an evil.
Such is the case in some houses in Rivington, Stanton, Ninth and Eldridge Streets.
All these places are filthy, and exceedingly offensive and dangerous to the whole neighborhood.
In some places the foundation of the privies being rotten and broken and fecal matter runs into the cellar, as in number blank extra place, where diseases and deaths have occurred.
The contents of
residents of a privy in a court at number fifth street have from a similar cause saturated the yard of premises on the Bowery, where several children died during the summer.
I will at this point simply allude to special nuisances.
New York has within the narrow limits of its present occupied area of about eight square miles, in addition to its one million of people and all its commercial and manufacturing establishments, a vast number of special nuisances which are to a greater or less degree detrimental to its public health.
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