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Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.

Subject Index

Addams, Miss J., Chicago work, 365, 395

Adler, Professor F., reform work, 7172, 371, 402

Air-shaft in tenements, tenants’ uses and peril of, 93

Alfred Corning Clark buildings, 129, 130

Allen Street—Children seeking “the commissioner” for justice, 5960

One-room houses, beginnings of, 97

School building, 354, 357

Anderson, Mrs. A. A., bath gift to city, 282

Armenian Christmas tree, contribution of poor children, 218

Association for improving condition of the poor—Baths, public, 282

Housing reform movement, 128

Work of, 285

Athletic meets, Crotona Park, 366

Bacillus of the slum, 62

Balkan peninsula, immigration from, 202

Bands, roof playgrounds, 389395

Barney of Cat Alley, 333339

Baron Hirsch Fund, see Hirsch Fund

Baths, public—Anderson, Mrs. A. A., gift, 282

Association for improving condition of poor, work of 282

Free river baths, 282

Hamilton Fish Park, Tammany use of, 149152

Baths, public—Lack of public baths scandal, 281

Mott Street bath, 282

Plans for system of municipal baths, 282283

Rivington Street, 281

Shower-baths for public schools, 283

Battle Row—Gang, Easter service, 251252

Improvement, 135

Baxter Street “dens of death,” 14, 20

Beds, Mills Houses, 159

Beginning of the battle, 14

Bellevue, scandal during Tammany government, 66

Bend, see Mulberry Bend.

Ben Wah, Mrs., and her parrot, story of, 441449

Beresheim, Jacob—Arrest for murder, 227

Birth in tenement, 228

Law-breaking, 234

Life and environment, 227236

Schooling neglected, 231

Berlin death-rate, 124

Big Flat, Mott Street—Carriage factory in place of, 32

Instance of reform still-born, 27

Blacksmith, Patrick Mullen, 413414

Bleeker Street house, see Mills Houses.

B’nai B’rith “removal plan,” 215

Bone Alley, destruction, 279281, 285

Boss, character of, 420429

Bottle Alley, Whyo gang headquarters, 272, 308