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 inspectors describe more or less minutely a large number of tenant houses and also of groups.
Cat Alley is the local designation of a group of dilapidated tenant houses in an alley on Cannon Street.
The alley is unpaved and is excessively filthy.
The privy is a small and broken down structure, covering only a part of the vault, which is now full almost to overflowing.
The inhabitants are degraded both physically and socially.
In several of the domiciles at the time of our last inspection, there was neither bedstead nor table nor
Twelve of these families were found in a wretched condition, and all the children we saw were covered with dirt and presented the intensest aspects of scrofulous disease.
Their sore eyes, encrusted heads, and dehumanizing appearance told the story of want and neglect and of greater evils to come.
Five small houses, two and a half stories in height, including the basements, each containing apartments for six families front on an alley called Rivington Place.
This alley is always in a filthy condition.
The houses on it are small and overcrowded.
The thirty families that reside in these five houses have no other water supply than that which two hydrants furnish in the exterior.
interior courtyard.
While for this population of nearly two hundred persons of all ages, there are but two privy vaults, and at the time of the last inspection of the quarters, these vaults were filled nearly to the surface.
In the year eighteen forty nine forty two individuals died here in three weeks of cholera, and not one recovered that was taken sick.
The reasons are plain they have no
have no ventilation, and the houses being double, the exhalations from one apartment are inhaled by the other.
At number blank West Twenty Fifth Street, a wretched tenement of two apartments, the rooms occupied by one family.
The sitting room is about ten by twelve feet, and the bedroom about five by twelve, without a single window or air hole.
These rooms were occupied in the hot months of July by a colored female having pulmonary consumption and her two children were
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