New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-27
TEyEuEyTS IN a HORRIBLE CONDITION.
REPORT OF THE SANITARY AID sociEff-oALiiSs
rur Ro.KD OF HEALTH TO ACCOUNT.

,vpo,r on TIE SANITARY AID soCIETY-CALLiSG
TIE BoAKp OF HEALTH TO ACCOUNT.
The Sanitary Aid Society of the Tenth ward
of this city which began ats work On February l.
startling condition Of affairs In that ward Siso
section of the city taken up by the society io
purpose of thoroughness in the inspection. se'eh IN
spectors and sanitary engineers were put AZ "orA.
Every house In the ward has been Inspected to VI
1850 Of which about 1900 are tenement houses INC
population Of the ward is 10000 and TINS es IN inc o
lowing streets Norfolk. Ludlow, orchard, Aheh'
Edrdge Forsyth Christie, Rvingten, Delaney broome'
Hester Grand. Bayard and Division The society la 10
report says: .uA,.h
nothing nore horrible imagined. and which, Al
though perhaps equaed can certainly not 90 Sn
in any Enropean city To get into these pestlIe'an M
man rookeres you have to penetrate courts anu %
reeking poisonsus and gases IN All d.
recions and often flowing beneath your foe lou naso
TO ascend rotten staircsscs which threaten 70 So We"
beusath every stop, and which In some places
ready broken down leaving gaps that mporI inc LINUS
and lives of the unwaIy walls anu ya Uttered upon
them through long years Of neglect IL - enuans
through cracks In the boards overheaai o have as
crnded to the attic, where at least some rapsn
fresh air might be expected TO enter % d Iedges OF
windows you look out upon the roofs ant s.bich
lower tcnements and discover that the sickg
Of dead cats or birds viler abomnations
still The buildings are In snch a niv reach
suggest the Thought that II tne Mn hnt the heads OF
their occupants. 80 -, -, ,,-,v ohildrsn
Often several families occupy tho same apartment Vne
of the inspectors reports twenty-five IN tntuv -
rooms but OF which are mere closets NJ
dows or openings 90 the malt Here u Iay - ar,
mother aud four children taking IN sonIa -
and living In three rooms. There are hlteoh peoPIo
ali sexes and ages two little ROOMS great W
which is In addition taken mp with old rass anu
one of the directors discovered parents thros eaej
and fifteen geese living In filthy cellar Aohoa or
a room which had actually not pcen ci9tnou a.
whitewashed for five years, and where t heing I'm
tumblng down in pieces, one OF the children peis ~
bed from wounds on race anu snouiocl 80
Inv the falling plaster. Hero were found WOMAN anu
1--we small chidren who were acnay o,nsn bst two
days after confinement being elected Oy ah ~ ,s
landlord Many are the rooms which are et out III tue
daytime by the miserable occupants 10 uoaen @ %
tive fourteen sixteen hours day on their gNssts
or sewing machines, filling the room Win s'lninss
sphere and influencing the young chilnfeh Win
their ribald jokes. -, ,,.ta, -,
Then follow nauseating details Of the condition OF
large number OF tenement houses The society calls ~
tention 10 its model lodging housesone OF which mas
lust been opened at No. Doyors-st-as one pracuca
means OF meeting the question, and also to notices sent
by IT TO lessees or owners calling attention TO Violations
of law and the need Of repairs The society complains
however, in this strain:
The owners Of the houses are reckless unprn-
cpea men who take notice OF the society letters
mon them II is necessary for the Board of Health 20 act
The society provides the Board OF Health Win c re-
ports of the but the BOard asserts hat
cannot accept these authoritative ana sI cau'e re-
Inspections 10y It's Inspectors but does u reihsoctl
II did nt act upon i've six OUT lhen Simply
ignored the reports OF the society
The society rehearses It's Intellectual efforts to secure
additional inspectors the Board OF Health and de-
cares that the Board has II In It's power by tue outlay oil
SIOO for five inspectors for month AZ 10 con-
pete the work society and rid the city OF It, pos
lentlal nOlek