New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-03
NETWORKS POPULATION.
CHANGES SHOWN BY THE CENSUS.

BOARD OF HEALTH NOhh.
In conversation with several property
ers accustomed to note the demand fer dwellings, ana
warehouses in various quarters Of the city TRIBUNE re-
porter CLEANED facts OF interest iusae"
by the census tables published yesterday. The re-
gion Of South Fifth-ave. comprised In the vim
Assembly District shows . decrease OF nearly
900 in population during the past ~ years
Ten years ago street called Laurensst Dut con-
tanned no business Of any note Since then many
warehouses factories and stores have been ercc'e"
there A similar change has taken place IN West
Bleeckcrst West Washing tOn-place. upper Greenest'
and Universy-place. While greater part OF the popu
laon OF Inrcnsst coOred that OF other streets IN
the same district French and German NANNY
French Theae peopleaccOrding TO the Statements OIL
persons accustomed to let houses and apartments
to hc-have not up town. but they have crossed
TO Long Island and NcwJersey. The population OF uh-
SOD County, j. has doubled during the past ten years.
most of the French and Asaans VINO used to 1--we IN OF
about south Fifh-ave. having moved there Inc eh'ue
decrease In the With District is limited to the locality
mentioned including University place, Ninthst' anu
West Washlngton-place.
In the IXth District there decrease OF some @ooo
persons In Greene Prince, MacdOuga, and West hous-
where 10 years ago residences could be rented
M fair prices These have been succeeded either by bus
ness houses, ny houses OF nlfame barrooms anu p
The population there now ID found mainly
In thrdclas boarding houses and IL IL believed by many
that the work in some OF these election d
tricts has been only partially performed especially III
places where even the landiadle5 90 noI a'"a! o" ~
names Of their bOarders.
In the downtown districts those best acquainted Win
that quarter deny that there Is decrease IN popuoh
in WALL Pine, William, any Of the streets containing
large buildings. The janltors. with their numerous
families have rather increased the total OF population III
certain localities and the inquirer was referred 10 the
censustabe which showed that the decrease was to be
in Uoto
Frankfrt-sts where an eight years crusade by the
Board Of Health first the OverpOpuated tenemen's'
next ON the population has had the effect OF driving
out at least 1000 persona.
Referring TO the increase Of population In some or the
uptown DISTRICTS the attention OF the reporter was
directed TO the extreme and west OF the city, where
during the past years buildings have been
erected md all have been rented easily, while the center
OF the island materially increased IN population
snch streets as West F0rtynfth West FortysiXh West
forty-sevcnh West Fiftyfrst, and West iity-second
all west Of the Eghth-ave. to Tcnth-ave., snow an
Increase OF 5000 ptrsous whe again on the east
side an increase OF 10000 IL found in the region covered
by East Finy-sixth, East Fifty eighth, East fifty
NINTH East sixteth East Sixty FIRST, east
OF Tbirdave. TO Firstave. and the river
The largest increase Is to be found IN the larle
district and here again the increase NEST marked on
The extreme parts of the island like Wet ODehundred
aDd-fourtcenb One-hundred andftcenth, Onehundred-
and-sixtceDth, and Onehu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
near Eighthave where there are nearly 10000 more
persons than 10 years and also In streets like East
seventy fifth East Seventy East Eehtich East
Eighty east Of Ihrdare, where there 10 an III
crease of 5000 human beings
FLUCTUATIOS OF TIE TENEMENT POPULATION.
The action OF the Board Of Health in regard to people
living cellars and the tenement population btcv'd
by Assistant Sanitary Superintendent James and other
prominent sanitaans TO be the cause Of some OF the
In off
districts the cellars have been repeatedly cleared by the
Sanitary Inspectors and at length the miserable Dhab
itants have sought homes elsewhere The Worthst ex-
tension drove away Of these persons, ho for
merly lived in the rookeres in that neighborh0od.
These persons focked into the large tenemens in Eliza
beth, Mott and Mulberry ss and caused an increase In
the census OF those election districts In Elzabcthst
there l. one that contains so families and this
building was filed mainly by those who were driven
from the Sixth Ward. Not only were tcnemens cut
through and torn down at the time Of the Worthst
tension also the grades raised and the cellars
bordering upon that street were filled, driving out The
inhabitants OF forcing them to take rooms on higher
story.
The census tables show that there increase Of
OO4 in the IIId IVth and With Election Districts OF
the I Assembly District. In these districts especially
in and its neghbOrhood, there are many large
tcn-ments which have received the population driven
other quarters by the oncroachment OF wachou
This section also contains large vi
aud sailor boarding honses and is the Swedish quarter
Of the city, The census Of the XVIII XVIII,
XVIIIth and XXih Election Districts shows u de-
cnssc Of 3l3 This decrease DR. James attributes to the
Sg' "I the oyerenwdns Of the tnemenis in
these Districts. and has sent many persons to find houses
IL tie lid Assembly District the Board Of Health have
been especially active large number OF underground
mrnts have been limited to such number Of inhab-
itant- as they can accommodate without danger 70 life
tom Slows Of ' 575 but any ' OF the
hud,nrs in this district occupied by tenement popula
ton $50 lave been torn down since and warehouses
Election Districts, including parts Of Cherry, Roosevelt
OF 1859, which H. believed to be the result OF the
o !" H Ht Board % do Of Ia In the iXth Eecton D
there has been DECREASE OF G53 probably owing 10
tIct. The XlXth Election District shows decrease of
I62 caused by the clearing out OF the cellars and under
the XVIlIth and XXth Election Districts show an In
crease of 49, The tcnenens in those places having r.
we'd many Of the driven from the cellars In the
Thc lid and Nth Election Districts Of the lid
Assembly District snow decrease Of sj7. This de
crease Dr. believes also have been caused part
by The thinning out of the tenement population IL l.
ais du TO extent he states to the encroaclmens
OF msncss upon that territory. In the IVth Assembly
Dstlie the Xivih and Xvth Election Districts,
Seventh Ward. also show decrease OF $40 La the VIA
Assembly District the KIN, Xltn, KIN Ia and Xiiith
iose the decrease Dr. James believe Is to be at
ilDutcd largely to the vigorous enforcement OF the or
diuances Of the Board Of Health.
The great Of tine tenement population that have
compelled to find other quarters has driftcd into the
VGn With, IXth Xth and XIth Election Districts Of
the With Assembly District There the census shows an
Increase Of 2,296 Tue population in this quarter Is
made up all the kinds thai collected together in
great lropoils. All nations represented and all the
smaller trad This partoi The city has received various
names, but it is generally known as stag Town. ~
tue ragiickcrs resort The Sanitary lnspt ciors
obliged 10 almost constant sn rysion this
population aud compel them to observe The neal Ordi
strictly Ii has been IN this quarter that the Vac
cinatDg Corps have found DiaDy nests Of suiapo
There j. "a large tenement population in the Seven
tenth Twentieth, and Twenty second Wards The tene
ments there, however, Of "a more modern style Of