The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1859-12-01
THE NEW YORK SUN.
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC 1859.
TIE New Yssh Peer for the PAS Year.

TIE New Yssk Pesr for thc Pas Year.
The sixteenth annual report Of the Nov York
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roor, hss just been issued. IL mentions de-
crease Of population, an occurrence not known
bsfore sines the var Of 1912. Four tbor..r,
s.m,,,.. ~, N. citv la, than h.v ~. -.
'Amines MI 'ne CITY. Less than hAif the aver
ego Of alien emigants arrived hsrs during tho
same time. AZ no period Of the last winter VA.
the dsstit ution IN the city As great as hsd bean
anticipated. The demand for labor revived with
unex pscted rapidity lessepinp tbs necsssit /. -
pscunisry rslief. "
Pauperlsm has attained an ALARMING mayn;-
tude, and, corresponding TO Il, there hss b.cn An
increase Of crime, OF tax alton and ins.cnr rtv ~
life and property. The number OF eity psnS.rs =,
relieved and supported during the wear eni,no
December LIST, 1859, wass1S0. 150.about ones
seventh Of the population, and an increase upon
the year previous Of 81. oil, and involving an
expcr diture Of about half Q million Of dollars.
I The commitments for crime numbered s5.i72
an increase Of more than rs psr cant. At an ont,
lay exoeeding &30O 0O0--making the annual cost
for rauperism sad crime about ss0O.0.o.
II Is not true that In this city we have littlo
inhsri.ed pauperism and that which Is Of native
growth. Not less than thirty eight DER cent. Of
the parsons receiving public rclisf consists OF ma
tive born citizens, and the rsio in the In, erior
counties Il still greater. II Is steadily increas-
ing, howcver, both NON our native population
and by addition from abroad. The laws Ia ro-
gard 70 the subject are generally disrep ard,d or
inefiiciently executed, so that pAuperism and
crime arc swelling TO blight society with an in
tolorable scourge. Cur ratio Of fpaupsri,m exceeds
even that Of England, Scotiand and Ireland
In twenty years population has incr ased sixty
one par cont, and pauperiAm seven hundred and
six per cent.
The sanitary condition Of the city "a dstsrior-
ating from year to year. In Loudoi, the annua
mortality fs one In forty; In Paris one In thirty.
seven IN Hamburger, one In twentv-eipbt In
New York, one In twenty. seven. The infsntiIe
mortaliiy fs terrible. In 1855 tboro ver, M Il5
births and 23.042 death,-oyer half Of than
young children. In 1856 the total mortalitv In
the CITY was ~. .65,, a which Is 373 wa, IN n.r-
sons undor five years Of arc. Unwboesome SoJ
Is the principal cause Of infsntile mortality. D.-
festivs dwellings, como in also W 4 nre1is.
posing cause. In the Construction Of dvaIi-
irgs, almost every requisite for the b.atb
and comfort Of the occupants has becn sacriG-
ced. They are generally contracted, darn. III
and damp cellars, amidst tho deleterious exba-
latiops Of cesspoos and putrid fsrment stions of
refuse matter, in which II l. Impossible 10 pre-
serve health, life, OF common deceucv. n Ia
tho uniform testimony Of sanitarians and moral.
ists, that disease and crime arc the indiuonious
productions of the same localities. Health and
morals suffer om those causes to an extent
which renders nugatory the moral app,iancea
for the benefit Of this clf IS Of our population
Tho CELLAR population Of Eew fofk exoeeas
twenty thousand. The hidsous squslor and
wretcbedness Of thoss dens, tho chosen haunts