The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-29
City Intelligence.


City Intelligence.
THE PURIFIcATIoy OF TIKI cIrY-THB RETURNS OF
THE HRALTH WARDENs.
The City Inspector time since issued books to
the Hessh wardens in the different wards OF the city,
containing forms 10 b. filed up, giving the number Of
each ksuse, the and address Of the owner, the
stsYie rooms families number Of person. the state Of
the yards condition Of the buildings whether dirty
clean and how they ventilated together with obser
vstops particular nuisances Already returns for
ten wards have been made to the City Inspector
In the First ward, the Health Warden returns tho
buildings In Washington street, as generally old,
badly ventilated and used emgrant boarding houses
With scarcely exception, liquor Is sold on the pre-
mses The number Of persons in these houses IL con-
ssntly varying The condition Of tho yards II generally
and almost unavoidably bad This Is owing. in many
instances to tho very deficient employed to carry
Of tho water from the roofs. 1t IL conducted into
the yards, and lies there to be removed only by
the slow process OF absorption and evaporation The
Placements generally occupied and wet andwhouy
unfit for human habtations The privies In Washington
street badly constructed and affected by the tide
il olbs flows. Cleaning them out affords only
temporary abatement Of the nusances arising from this
cause. They should be built with vaults laid in water
cement Thus the evils arising from their leaking would
be prevented Trinity place is for the most part
pied by wrcchod families Of foreigners who very dirty
In their habits The yards in the entire block of houses
In Greenwich street from Morris STREET.-THE Rector street,
wet owing to the means Of carrying oil the water be-
ing imperfect and the sewers being in state Of decay
which crowded to excess. and are generally dirty
has also many of those boarding houses and
il is filthy in parts The yards and cellars of all the
lots from lS3 to 1b5 are wet arising from the decayed
condition Of the old cisterns In Stone street the oond
ton OF the houses and yards from NO to To- unavo
able health The houses old and the pryes badly
constructed Many Of the dwellings in this street are
dirty Moore street comes under the same category.
Most of the other streets in the ward toeraby clean,
with the exception Of few houses here and there.
Elm the Second ward Theatre alley holds the most dis
tinguished rank for dirt In other alleys and
streets this ward there dirty houses bad ventla
ton and bad sanitory regulations but general rule,
ii IL much cleaner than the First ward.
The returns for the Third Ward are not yet made.
The returns for the Fourth ward exhibit some very
filthy dwellings, particularly in Cherry and Water streets
there Of the lowest and yilet houses Of
prostitution On the whole the report of the Warden is
favorable regards this ward-more favorable than we
are inclined 10 think the facts warrant.
For the Fifth ward, the returns have not been yet
made.
The sixth ward containing the Five Points and the
adjacent streets exhibits melancholy picture of fifth,
vice and misery Houses of i'll fame and the lowest rot
gut groggere abound in these streets They are oecu
pied hy Garkcf, Irish and Dutch sink full and in bad
condition is the oft repeated observation OF the arden
In the houses of ll-faue sometimes coored and white
occupied tho same buildings. There about
hundred houses of ifame noted by the Warden, in this
wardin place fifteen Of them together OF course,
he was not able to ascertain them all TO show the
houses in this ward are crowded with swarmng human
beings, may mention rs specimen Of the returns the
three scry house No 5e Cross street Of the estate of
Patrick Brennan, occupied by seventy families CON-
prisng hundred and sixty persons. OF course it
could not be otherwise than returned as dirty
sailors boarding houses and porter houses The returns
Of house end yard filthy very In this ward
Some OF the nuances are horrible. considerable
number of Dutch live in this ward The only street in
this ward that the Warden has noted having houses Of
tker heads very high live upon the profits by charging
exorbtan rents 10 the miserable beings who are their
tenants.
There is no return, yet made for the Eighth and
The Tenth ward if to believe the warden is
the whole in a fair" condition.
he Il a
lthies in the whole city 1t Is almost exclusively
pied by Dutch and il made Of low ground reclaimed from
The Fact river. The streets and houses and yards, in
this ward truly horrible and it is filled with mer-
able rookeres The ragand bone pckers abound in this
ward We shall not disgust the reader by giving the
loatbsome details Of the filth Of this ward which is
great nuisance.
The returns for the Twelfth ward, which extends to
Harlem. do not present any features of interest.
The Warden Of the Thirteenth has not yet made his
return
The Fourteenth ward exhibits a large amount of vice
and filth There Is large number OF stables in it which
lend to rcnderi more unhealthy than otherwise would
lie. Assignetion houses abound in this ward.
The Fifteenth ward has not yet been returned by the
warden.
The returns for the Sixteenth ward and the First pre-
sent the most information and seem 10 be most carefully
done In the Sixteenth ward there numerous dirty
hog Pens and COW houses which poliute the air. Very
ma ny Of the streets kept extremely dirty and the
house not much better This ward abounds in shan
ties Tho dwellings badly ventilated in paris
Ct the ward. occupied by miserable class The
lasemcnts Of the houses hled with water and in
of the low lots sagnant water abouuds. Tripe
tered everywhere this ward But the great nusances
the nagerie where Grange county milk l.
nufscturcd extensive scale.
There returns yet for the Seventeenth, Egh
teenth and Nineteenth wards.
DISTRACTION STABLE AND HoRsrs nv FiRE-A -Four
lSp-At quarter past four O'Clock on sunday az
ERE broke cut in Mr. Nc Brides stable situated
in his stone yard in Twenty second street, west of the
Tenth avenue The stables, together with two valuable
borses the property Mr. Mcbride. entirely
suned Captain Stevenson, Of the sixteenth ward with
sl his force aud Of the officers from the Ninth
ward in attendance and gave active assistance.
The Tire Department also turned out la strong force
In mtJateiy after the hre there grand shindy.
which originated with the boys that after the
gnes Jma tey the assumed serious aspect, and
hundreds engaged in g. using their fists AMI
sud throwing By the exertons Of the poicc
and the peaccaby disposed and orderly remen the ht
at lat queliei Several Of the rnglcaders
rested which had sautury effect ia checking the pro-
grtss Of the battle.
ASorurR FiRr.--At quarter past O'Clock on Sunday
evening camphine lamp exploded in the front cf
house 30 Bowtry. Otnccr Mcdonald the blaze from
the street. aud Immediately crossed aud cxtinguish
cd Il.
sricirr.-A woman named Mary Brennan, observed
ly some boatmen sitting the dock at the foot of
Charles street. about II O'Clock NJ. on SUNDAY. She
after found floating In the water but the vital
spark had fed.
Two Mrs EgssUrD DRow-f~c.--Dn Sunday
Irishnan. whose nav not learned. recuet
FROM drowning st the foot Of Chambers street by two
ofi.cefs az the Third ward. Also, Thomas Martin
saved By the officers at the foot OF Deg street