New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-23

brief mortality table, not by any means new,
which We give as compactly as possible:
IN SEw-YoRK
Populstion.I Population,
w., 4 dr,th In | Y.sr desth an
1910. ...... ...... 4ii6 le.S-.. .--..--.. 1o'oJ
loo. $500. $40 1857. -..---T'ii2
1870. ......--''b.O icoV..- ..-'.-''''o.'
is4o.. ......a6.57 1852. .....-..-..a3t 10
1850. ....... .....0.33 ! 1868. -. .....3s.T
Onslul One IN
IaiO ....S ls5s...............A
Now single flying comparison, as we pass,
of this with the worlds metropolis. For the
year ending March 81. 1860, the deaths in Lon
don were 22.40 per thousand OF population or
one in a.; in all England the average rate, one
in 22.3O; in country districts. one in 20; in large
towns, one in &c. Ten years before this, the
annual mortality Of London was % to the thou
sand, OF about one in 40, the nineteen per cent
improvement being due to sanitary measures;
while in New.York, for fifty years, the deaths
averaged one in 34.O7. Since the application OF
simple sanitary measures, the annual mortality
fell off from 81 to % per thousand in Liverpool;
ar from % to 81 in an average OF nineteen
towns.
OF The total number Of deaths in New-YOrk
from 1904 to 1855, 424 per cent were under five
years of age. During the same period the mum.
Der of stil.born increased from one In Los Of
population in 1910, to one in ni in 1856. The
number OF deaths under one year Of age grew
from one to every 332 in 1910, to one in 80 in
1856; while thai Of deaths under four years from
one in $50 in 1910, to one i'll As III 1855. We
print these tables probably Tor The last time, and
leave nothing to add to their suggestive speech.
How do the poor Of New-York livef OF
1885 families, only 1890 have house
apiece; II, 3t}2 Others live two in house; 4,4i6
buildings contain three families each; while the
remaining II ,965 houses shelter ~, 356 families
averaging six each, or thirty-fve persons 10
a house. In the First Ward, contaiaing 2,Sl4
families. ei3 live in s. houses, or - families or
10 souls to house. In the Tenth, POI fami-
lie, live in % houses, or IL families or go souls
to u house. In the Eleventh, ll3 rear houses
contain $50 families, or 10 souls each; "a con-
tain 4O7 families OF 20 souls each; and ~ con.
tain % souls each. These are only samples,
and not the worst cases. There are $50 tcne-
nents containing 1888 families, Or above 81
persons each; 1913 Others, containing III persons
each; II Others, containing $40 each; and ~
which have population OF 5,4i9, or lsz TO each
house. Throughout the whole city the average
number OF families per house il three, and that
of persons fifteen. While %, l7i dwellings con.
tain but 3O.352 families and I50,000 persons,
ii. 3sl Others contain s5, ga families or, 425 900
persons averaging FIVE families and "a souls
tain 400 families; single block not far distant
contains 700 families and $500 souls. With
u 60 more families than Philadelphia, New
York had, in 1850, 23,60l fewer dwellings 10
shelter them in.
Enough OF statistics, however. The Old
Brewery is gone; the woman who persisted with
cold and was eaten Of rats Oh Mulberry street
is forgotten long ago; few Of the worst speci.
mems Of tenements have passed away, and few
people think much about the rest, though
everybody suffers from them II necessarily fol-
lows tba, they are perfect fiery furnaces in case
of fire. with only one or two narrow wooden
sta.rcases, with weak walls and lofty windows,
from which women and children can jump to
the pavement or burn. OF course, simple clean
illness, 10 say nothing Of ideas Of decency, lis
impossible; Of necessity, every element of
pleasure in life, beyond tho most sensual SORT, is
utterly unknown. Everybody knows this; knows
that these places are nosome, dirt-soaked,
vile, debasing; everybody should know that life
TO he spent under such conditions IL not gift,
being o weight in itself, and sGcrding small
glimpse Of better to come. In those places
garbage steams its poison in the sun; there
thieves and prostitutes congregats and are
made; there Are the besotted creatures who roll
up blind masses Of votes for the rulers who are
D curss to us; there are tho deaths that
swell our mortality reports, from there come
'ur enormous taxes in good part; there disease
turks. and there is the daily food Of pestilence
awaiting its coming. Heaven put that day 70
rom Us but ii will surely como sooner or lAtsrr
through some fatal ship, or some subtle convey
moe fths cir, and then Nsw.York may be Nor.
ok; and TIE tsnsment.housss, though f'i pr
lsath Arst themselves. b rsvenged uyoa q.
vho have aaas~sA shsir 0nptsssico. These pee