Stephen Smith
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That occurring among an equal number of the inhabitants of floors above ground as being about a ratio of three to two.
End of Chapter four Part one
Chapter four Part two of the City That Was by Stephen Smith.
This Libervox recording is in the public domain.
Chapter four New York The Unclean Part two
The inspector of the fifteenth ward reports in a dark and damp cellar about eighteen feet square and seven feet high, lived a family of seven persons.
Within the past year two have died of typhus, two of smallpox, and one has been sent to the hospital with Aerosipolis.
The tops of the windows of this abode are below the level of the surface, and in the court near are several privies and
and a rear tenant house, yet this occurred but a short distance from the very heart of the city.
The inspector of the ninth ward writes at numbers blank blank blank and blank Hammond Street and also at number blank Washington Street are inhabited cellars, the ceilings of which are below the level of the street, inaccessible to the rays of the sun, and always damp and dismal.
Three of them are flooded at every heavy rain and require to be bailed out.
They are let at a somewhat smaller rent than is asked for apartments on an upper floor, and are rented by those to whom poverty leaves no choice.
They are rarely vacant.
The inspector of the seventeenth ward states that in seventeen squares fifty five houses contain two hundred and forty six persons living in cellars entirely underground.
As a matter of course, such cellars are unhealthy dwelling apartments.
Stanton Place has some of these miserable cellar apartments in which diseases have been generated.
These cellars are entirely
is entirely subterranean, dark and damp.
The inspector of the sixth ward says there has been some improvement within the last few years, the cellar population having been perceptibly decreased, yet four hundred and ninety six persons still live in damp and unwholesome quarters underground.
In some of them water was discovered trickling down the walls, the source of which was sometimes traced to the courts and alleys, and sometimes to the soakage from the water closets.
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