Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
Consumers’ League, work of, 196–201 |
Convalescents’ home, gift for, 396 |
Cooking classes, advantages of, 367–368 |
Cooper Institute, educational work, 380 |
Cottages, Homewood plan, 137–138 |
Crime—Boys, see that title. |
Child crime, increase of, 225, 240–242 |
Gangs, see that title. |
Italian criminals discovered in Mulberry Street, 204–205 |
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, 392–393 |
Deathrates—Berlin, 124 |
Double-deckers, lowest mortality, 114–115 |
First Ward, 116 |
Five Points “dens of death,” 16 |
Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance, 125–126 |
Mott Street barracks, 123 |
Rear tenants scandal, 115 |
Reduction, council of hygiene’s judgment, 19 |
Reform effects on, 125–126 |
Deaths in Cat Alley, 325–330 |
Death’s Thoroughfare, Old Church tenements, 16 |
Democratic government imperilled by existence of slum, 6 |
Demolition of dangerous property, 114, 116–125, 140, 272–280, 310–311, 337–340 |
“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, 63–75 |
“Discretion” clause, tenement building, 88, 105, 107, 148 |
Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, 143–147 |
Dispossessed tenants, rehousing, 286–287 |
Doctor, woman doctor, Dr. J. E. Robbins, 205–206 |
Dog, Trilby of Cat Alley, 331–333 |
Double-deckers—Cause of overcrowding, 102 |
Description and condemnation by Tenement House Commission, 102–103 |
Double-deckers—Doom of, 82–85, 148, 149 |
Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection, 99–102 |
Mortality rate, lowest, 114–115 |
Solid block, 105 |