, 1881-06-12
The Tenement-House inspectors
Discover All Manner Of Filth
and Rottenness.
Abundant Reason for an Immediate
and Thorough Enforcement Of the
Teuemeut-House Act.
Has SMALLPOX Came 10 Stay Large
Increase in Yesterdays Death
Rate.

Immediately. enforce the making Of repair
necessary for tile protection Of the health Q
tenants, and landlords and agents not com
plying with the law are and should be mad
liable to very heavy fines anil other penal
lies Dr. De Wolf should begin now. Til
defects reported are rs follows:
Nos. :;Gj to 37G Clark street, Isan s. Prem
ice agents, two-story frame stores AMI
dwellings,, 12) By - feel The plumbins
work is bad, the drainage Iefe&,iv3, and the
sewer clicked. The prlvics are oycyllowlng
and consequently very offensive. Tl't
premises ar: filthy, and garbage a1l<
ashes enbellsll the yards and cellars
There are three privy-yauits with four par:
titlons in each, all Overlooking. The waste
water runs info the cellar, where stagn:.llt.
sinking pools have formed. The CATCH
basins have not bcell cleaned Tor years. The
waste-plpes from the second story run into
the raiu-pipeS, and the contents from these
run directly upon the ground. Tie roofs
are leaky, and TWO Of the three rairl-pipes are
broken. All the back-yards are filled with
ashes and garbage. Ther.: is ,lo priyy vault
for No. :G5, and the filth fails npon the
ground. Several water-scryicc pipes are
leaking, and three OF the houses have rear
additions in the shape Of kitchens. -al!o-
gether they are not at all wholesome premises
to live in.
Milton Palmer owns Nos. BIB to 2115 State
street, five frame buildings used as stures
and dwellings, containing tiity-iiye rounls
and occupied by forty-eigilt persons. The
plumbing is untrapped and Ieak,-; thescwe1-
pipes and cattil-basins full, and the priy;'
likewise. The buildings are
n1PREGSArED WITH SEWEl:-G.As.
Nos, I'll; t., 3l:u State street at., in bad san
itorv cont.;1inn. ana Tho hn;lJinr ruu,i,-
f,nm N .s1:s: a., s1a1 sta.,. ,,u,-i.,s, '.,,a1
~ str-.I.. s.i ..v az 80 a,
:, factnrv las M, ;, w.,.r..Iosa. - f. - '"'o
Nc "a t'Ior' .trn,. n,..r,o1 H.. - ,.;, 1,,r
s,t b.: .'n,y @ nl.s ,ls. 9,,eu u ;,,n 1 ".
tainlng 1tliriy-iwo ruins .I,i orcunied hy sivty
,rs.,5s. ,,1',n,n.s ~ , "r,'.r. i,,ns.r., ~
feaSing. aini 1t,.. r,riyv val,iis are tomi 'TH.
n,..,niss.s nr,. f;itI,t. ;,ar.s,x,inI nnI 1,ji,:
ventilated. Tie i,uus,. IS Inhibited hy ft.ai-
ians as 4 observation-disclosures. -
u r i: E..,lr n,v,.s rron, ", a., +, W
Hs clark strr,t a rnW. ri tv. stnr,.s ~ ~ mi an"
tiweliings. threr s1ori.., ami l1:lsrrrnts mi
tanning st.yelty-tiye ROOMS. occuuie,i by liz
narso,;s n,,ir,,,,'a ouo,I ~
utlappe ., w, "t'te7npss 20 etoneu
VI. Ia md IL; 1,1eri- 7,.nntr.fiat ~
one Wnn1e.,,,,erv f;onn, - inrftt.,; i;Iuci:.
fhraestnrv fr',n,. ,o,,rf,,in t.,i,t rn''sns
Inhabited by seventy prisons: ,l,,,r:,uin.i
crl,'Hii ,raf n,,. a,,t, n..n:p, 'a 9;e.-
mo 1he ;nt.,inr sfnost,,arr ;rf, ins nnt.,-
saws: "This roukury is tiilari.,atri an, |
liable to fall down during Il heavy Wild The |
two upper floors are filled with Italians, who !
take as many dodgers as they can pack into u
room."
Nos 2CSS and 2G1i Fourth avenue are owned |
by man named .iilcock l.. Wiusbrrs and 4,
Wilkins They are tAree-stury ami ba,e- !
tnent bricks, containing seventy-thrce roouas,
waste-pipes. manure and garbage III 1he
walls dark and nnren1ilated rooms, with
the third floor largely tenanted By yerilli,, in
he shape Of rats.
4 man named Prlndle+ No. 1Gs> In Sailc
;treet, owns Nos -. :.91- aud 10; Third ay-
nue. -three-story aud basement brick stores
md dwellings, containing fnrty-two ROBINS,
nhablted by sixty persons. The plumbing IS
defective. the sewer cho.sed. the yard
llthy, and the walls nasty and offensive. Be
ides the sixty regular illll,bitants OF The
'iace, twenty-five girls, Ave women. and five |
,oys are employed III a raG-shop and sock
actory, which occupy the three stores I'M
lel3iea}ll ~ ~~ 0t = "A
Nos. ~ AN, ?967 eos. and 800 Fourth ay-
fices at No. 4:s' West Madison street. It is
row Of five frames. containing foCty rooms
: which are lt!ddlcd scveuty.-eiglt persons.
,lle plumbing is bad, the sewer l., chnkeI
nd the priyies orertioWiug. Tie Insptctor
ays that the condition OF the premises is so
l1hy ani sickeliug that they are
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n thr ce1,rs and ,.ards ,ra ,.,",-;,,n -,,;+., :
swage and garta r. rhe wn1s III ar. l.,;faI III
III, iira u ,,,', thn r,s,'f. M M'1s ale Ellfned
" I'd ~ riarl ie io'is le;..,. ct
Fe,alas. ni~,ni>;,,e4 S.,t., nm 'eu oy oleele
saetes. nlulloll'g tiky anu llntrIpped. | :
ory and basement hricL cont,;,,i,,r tr,.',I-
seven rooms, III which nifty persons have :