Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — CROWDED CONDITIONS IN A BIG CITY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CROWDED CONDITIONS IN A BIG CITY.

From the report of the tenement house commission: The Block Is bounded by Chrystie, Forsyth, Canal and Bayard streets. It includes thirty-nine tenement houses, containing 605 different apartments for 2,781 persons. Of these, 2,315 are more than five years of age, and 466 less than five years. There are 1,588 rooms, and only 264 water closets in the block. There is not one bath in the entire block. Only forty apartments are supplied with hot water. There are 441 dark rooms, having no ventilation to the outer air, and no light or air

except that derived from other rooms. There are 635 rooms getting their ' sole light and air from dark and narrow airshafts. During the last five years there have been recorded thirtytwo cases of tuberculosis from this block, and during the past year thirteen cases of diphtheria. During the past five years 665 different applications for charitable relief have come from this block. The gross rentals derived from the block amount ,to $1,113,964 a year. This block is not one of the worst In the city, but merely typical.

MODEL OF AN ACTUAL BLOCK OF TENEMENTS ON THE EAST SIDE, NEW YORK.