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

Subject Index

Consumers’ League, work of, 196201

Convalescents’ home, gift for, 396

Cooking classes, advantages of, 367368

Cooper Institute, educational work, 380

Cottages, Homewood plan, 137138

Crime—Boys, see that title.

Child crime, increase of, 225, 240242

Gangs, see that title.

Italian criminals discovered in Mulberry Street, 204205

Lodging houses as “nurseries of crime,” 54, 156

“Weakness not wickedness,” reformatory verdict, 244

[See also Murders and Robberies.]

Croker, R.—Abdication, 75

Election of 1900, 73

[See also Tammany.]

Crotona Park athletic meets, 366

Crowding, see Overcrowding.

“Cruller fire,” tenement house, 88

Cutting, R. F., erection of homes for working people, 129

Dalmatia, immigration from, 202

Dancing, school roof playgrounds, 392393

Deathrates—Berlin, 124

Double-deckers, lowest mortality, 114115

First Ward, 116

Five Points “dens of death,” 16

Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance, 125126

Mott Street barracks, 123

Rear tenants scandal, 115

Reduction, council of hygiene’s judgment, 19

Reform effects on, 125126

Deaths in Cat Alley, 325330

Death’s Thoroughfare, Old Church tenements, 16

Democratic government imperilled by existence of slum, 6

Demolition of dangerous property, 114, 116125, 140, 272280, 310311, 337340

“Dens of Death,” 14, 16, 20

Destitution encouraged by free lunch, lodging, etc., 170, 172

Destruction of property, see Demolition.

Devil’s money—campaign against Tammany, 1901, 6375

“Discretion” clause, tenement building, 88, 105, 107, 148

Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, 143147

Dispossessed tenants, rehousing, 286287

Doctor, woman doctor, Dr. J. E. Robbins, 205206

Dog, Trilby of Cat Alley, 331333

Double-deckers—Cause of overcrowding, 102

Description and condemnation by Tenement House Commission, 102103

Double-deckers—Doom of, 8285, 148, 149

Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection, 99102

Mortality rate, lowest, 114115

Solid block, 105