New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-29
UNDERGROUND CELLARS CLEARED.
RAID OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH oFFicERs On The
CELLARS OF TIKI FOURTH WARD

RAID OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH ofri'H"' oN IN"
CELLARS OF TIKI FOURTH WARD.
Among other precautions against pestilence
in tbe Summer months the Board OF Health nave deter
mined 10 compel all persons living III uhwhocsome un
deryround apartments 10 abandon such hoihcs' Tue
work OF xpcng residents In cellars was begun on
saturday IN the Fourth Ward Notices had been served
mon all that they gave up the apartments they
would be forciby compelled to do So but the warning
was almost universally disregarded Inspector G. +.
Lockwood and q squad Of Sanitary Police under the
command Of Sergeants Staff and Leerts started from
Police Headquarters on Saturday FORENOON ana pro-
ceeded 10 Waterst The cellar OF No 1856 was first Wis
tied II was reached by gong down four shaky steps,
and then n person OF medium hight found that the
ceiling was 30 low that 1t was impossible TO
stand erect. The cellar was divided into two rooms
both having an acove Of six feet by Ave fee sitting
odo filed the The police carried out the bedding
kitchen utensils and indeed everything that was in the
rooms and placed the articles the sidewalk At No.
33s waterst. the ceiling was also low and there were
four small hunks A foul 0dor rendered the room almost
unbearable to person Just coming IN from the street
The andady said that 1t was a healthy place. she had
been there years and had never been sick But
how about thsi" said Dr. Lockwood, STOPPING down
and taking plank out of the hoor revealing beneath
p6o and found that it was over a foot in depth The
cellar of No 1871 Warer-st WAS next visited IL was
found to .be divided into five rooms-f0ur rooms
six feet by four feet In SIZE, and larger Kitchen
Dr. Lockwood and the police then went TO the cellar
of No I49 Chatham-st II found TO be large cellar,
having one largo room containing bar Back OF this
room there was a double row OF rooms, divided by a
narrow passage-way. The ceiling was low. Over the
sinks in the back part Of the cellar, where ceiling
ought b. the filthy drippings from Stable overhead
had carried all tho mortar, and the raers or the
stable floor prOtruded, covered with stable refuse.
Down along the walls, against whch Two OF inc Oeus
were placed the drippings either from the stable
a sewer pipe had penetrated the paper There were
women sleeping in these rooms when tne police
entered After everything in the cellar bad been taken
out and the polics had gone away, the pr0pretor-a
German-carrIed the beds back again. The police re-
turned. but found the doors barred against them by
replacing the beds in the cellar the proprietor renders
himself liable to heavy penalty. lie viii be
prosecuted by the attorney OF the Board OF
Health. The police also compelled the residents
IN cellars at No. 80 Chatham and Nos. TO-
30 and 226 Wilham-st. to abandon their homes
The cellar No. 20 was found 10 be what Is termed
doube-decker." cellar under another. In the
first cellar the ceiling OF which was on level with the
street here was bar piano and three small bed rooms.
Going down pair OF narrow winding STAIRS The police
found four other rooms also fitted up as bedrooms
During the work of earring out the beds from this sub
cellar the policemen almost tainted from the STENCIL