New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04
INSPECTING TEYEMESEHoUSES.

FURTHER WORK OF HE BOARD or HEALTH OFF,
GERS.
There are over $4,000 tenement-houses in
NevYork City which 10 be visited by the Inspectors
OF the Board OF Health VINO. began their WORK FRI
day TIE inspectors Will continue the work until the
condition OF every tenement-house in the city has
S..r recorded in the large ledgers Of the
Sanitary Department OF the Board OF Health.
ON saturday the forty INSPECTORS resumed their
rev NJ the houses in the Seventeenth Ward Most OF the
,.roctors who were new the business. became
accustomed 10 their work and made progress In
acme instances the inspectors found Door families sur
fsrng from dirt. heat. crowded space and htte air
Alone , ace In FirsJave. the inspector found five
srorv building holding eight families. These families
comprised seventeen grown people and t8euty-iOur
children -Four dark seepinarooms were found each
soor 20 which very little air and light admitted
owing TO the great height OF the building very little
water could be obtained the upper floors. The sinks
and the closets In the yard emitted foul odor, and yet
there appeared be connection with the
sewer. In q great many cases II was found
tnat in these closets there absence II fou-air
pipes Al No. I3s East FOurthst. the inspector found
a ny.-story house IN which were twelve families, COM
nosed OF TWENTY-FIVE adus> and thrty-fOur children.
IL the door six persons lived IN three rooms
Very little hgnt admitted 20 the sleephg-rOoms,
ana a. there actually ventilation the atm0s here
was sitting A sick woman was ionnd IN one OF t9e
rooms, who had not had any hedlc@i az nuahce. IN
the rear ylru few houses away, simple mower garden
va aeeu hose flowers although greatly Wlhefed DY
fb sttu AID scarcity ~ water er1oyed By scores
~ repbbors from Jhc adjoining houses. The fragrance
froun roe duwpr-, however, could not overcome the
srDeb from undrained closets ma the vicinity In the
uevf touss we're twelve famllrs, who slept IN rooms
which we're small dark AID very bot.
Another house close Dy occupied by tEirtythrce
De0uIe nine OF whom children There was no
ter ON the uppr floors. and tlB Sleeping were
mat or the size required bY law. Ia THIS mouse the cellar
was occupied ~ family. contrary 10 the sanitary law
A. No $50 East FOurtst the Inspector found forty
four per.uns living the Eve hoors. Of whom nf,eeu
verr children. Uuwashed clothing was piled nigh
Ina he sleepug apartments, which, with br heJsteads,
isrt no vacant space tle hOOr. one house or i've
snres WA found by the inspectors IN Foutb-'t, when
contained fourteen families, consisting II 81 adults and
II children. or total OF " living beings.
Apparently al these persons could not be packed
into their rooms, they we're seen ia the
vsrd toe street. anu in all the Ia lw1yb.
Those WHO we're IN their apartments we're almost
overcome Dy rhe cNtieme heat, winch was made more
tfpsr by the lot stoves where Tie cooking done.
INC rear part OF the cellar Was occupied II was
small dingy place and was occupied by man
nearly dty y. arr old. stored all hs wares and mer-
ebaudse in fhe little ROOM Ia dark room opposite,
where scarcely ray hgh bad entered, i've per
sots were found 20 be the occupant. The Bohemian
VINO Was the father OF the family MAKING cigars
he showed the chlldreus sleepug-r0Omi 10 was not
| uucb larger than "A gOod-slZuu box.
Prom the progress already made by the Inspector the
indicatInus are that VIII take nearly month q visit
carefully all the houses already assigned them II Is ex-