Stephen Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Here we never find sound health, while the constant sickness rate ranges from seventy-five to ninety percent.
Now, as to the second condition under which we find the laboring classes, it is estimated by the police that the tenant house population of New York reaches the enormous figure of five hundred thousand, or about half of the total number of inhabitants.
The great and striking fact in regard to the domiciliary condition of the tenant house class is overcrowding and deficient sunlight.
light and fresh air.
The landlord of the poor tenant house has two principal motives: first to pack as many persons as he can in a given space, and second, to make as few improvements and repairs as possible.
The tenant houses are of two classes, viz.
the front and the rear.
The latter is closely allied to the cellar, being shut out from air and sunlight, it is generally damp, gloomy, and filthy.
The space between the front and rear house, familiarly called the well hole, contains the privy and cesspool, the emanations from which are closely confined to this space and slowly draw.
But constantly pervade with their disgusting odors all the rooms and recesses.
The tenant house has frequently been described by sensation writers with all its miseries, its diseases, and its deaths.
But no pen nor pencil can sketch the living reality.
It is only by personal inspection that one can learn to what depths of social and physical degradation.
degradation human beings can descend.
Set a committee appointed by your body to investigate the condition of the tenant houses of New York and
Sitting together upon the same broken box, lying together upon the same dirty straw, covered by the same filthy shreds, vying with each other in the utterance of foul obscenities, you have a picture of the mass of corruption and squalid misery gathered inside the walls of that unventilated building in mission place.
In that single house there was that which made the street
with his soul sicken and turn in horror from the sight.
Vice with its pretentious brow and wretchedness with hollow cheek and sunken glazed eye were there.
Hunger and lust stood side by side, petite larceny and cold blooded murder were holding converse.
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