New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

mot esft v iocstiots " tSs TOf'' on every |
.Se by large riveu-sih vrss river O. irs vstsr
eovpe throogb It. streets sod i.nes, 'nto 'n,sscss
of m. r,ch ard ID. tsreusnts - the poor
O, ,urrirg TO another psgs q Mr. Hsiday'N,rk, |
On, question. Ae s.!iy Answeret. About th>e- /
tou,tls Of the entire population live IN boa'es .nS
contain from three t. forty fsrni6ss s.cs athe rs
Ward Of sli families, 81 I've il teasment hou'e-'
ard IL fey-hye houses there are ~ sous !" e''
boute 10 ne TeIth Ward seyeniy'tfree houses H'''
81 avertge u ~ sous 20 house. Ia the hle'e.'A
Ward there are 10 GO families O. about seven 'ames
tothe house ll3 Of the rear aoates eontsn ao0U1 ~
SOIL. each In the Fourteenth there are 72hoIsss
coutsinrg % souls escb. There are IN the cry 'VyV
dwellings, oon;.iairg population OF over l'-'v'
sous 60 houses with 20 co soul. within their Sabsi
1873 house. W tn III persons 10 house, or 2l'S'
souls - houses oontsuiog is souls each, or poPu-
n;ior Of so persons. TIE Flfth avenue, from 'ae
Parade Ground TO tie Reservoir, distance Of ABOUT
two niles has about 40 families. sbile u single
block Of ,eremet, houses there ae 40 families.
In 1850 tie etre population Of Nss-YoFk Was
SIS 39i; rumber Of families 90 oSi and OF dwellings,
g Coz. Philsj.lphis. in $50, hsi population OF
s7s2 ard With u 2l6 families less than New-York.
had 3 col more dwellings.
Alter r.seing these statistics. need we wonder that
more thsn talf the children ii, before they rssch tue
sge of ten years reed We voIcei tost oar HosPha'
and Aims Houses are filed, that oar prisons are
Grove ed, and that vast army OF police rreqdired TO
protect the properly and tie lives OF our citizens
What else could ~e expect when Thousands Oh hun,n
beings are beIded together Ike swine, lvrs II tto,
brsattirg poisoned Az, surrounding ther onlidreh
with influences which blunt every moral ssrsio'h'y
ard render the commission of ,ms easy. The pictare
which Mr. Halliday gives Of many OF these tenement
houses-te filth the degradation, The poverty, the
tainted s;uo. pierre, ce.ars filed With hum'n beings
seeIipg on rotten straw an covered with nthy rage
m.n. women, and Children, black and white, OF every
color and race her rg together, WITH every sense o.
rnoces,y and shame bloted out-wasn ve reflect II -
no fancy sketch. hut drawn from life in tie very
midst Of US, may well thrill u with horror.
We tremble a. we hear Of the grsdual approach TO
our shores OF some fearful pest,lencs vessels and
passengers from infected ports src qu@anined, aud
every p.ecsu,icn taken 70 protect the lives of our c
zeps. And all the while We have around u, almost
at our doors nurseries Of pesence more to De DREADED
than the cholsrs or yellow fever-tooUssnds OF busy
hanos scattering broadcast over the city leeds OF
moral and physical disease.
Some OF our city ofciss are appauded Cor cleaning
th. streets and tearing down the f!iby swine rock
eres which for long time have eE sed IN certain por
TORS of the city Let them proceed ore step further,
and attack many OF these tenement houses as nut
sanoes to be aba,ed by tho law. and level them with
the ground or compel their o.n.rs to go alter them
that the ght aud tte pure air of heaven can enter
freely and urcoLtamiDated. And then erni; no
house to be erected unless ample provisions are made
fer cleanliness and free ventilation. Tnen when the
landlords have done their part, Jet the occupants be
compelled 10 keep the premises clean. Do this, and
mortality crime and taxes will rapidly decrease, and
Yew-Yoik speedily become the ceanesi and most
besltby city in the world.