Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
Tenements—Airshaft, tenants’ uses and peril of, 93 |
Alfred Corning Clark buildings, 129, 130 |
Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment, 20–21 |
Building Department supervision, 104 |
Children, see that title. |
Christmas trees, see that title. |
Citizens’ council of hygiene, report, 1866, 19 |
City and Suburban Homes Company, see that title. |
City control of building proposed, 152 |
Deathrate, see that title. |
“Dens of death,” 14, 20 |
Destruction, see Demolition. |
“Discretion” clause in building laws, 88, 105, 107, 148 |
Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, 143–147 |
Double-deckers, see that title. |
Factory tenements, disapproval of, 134 |
Filthy condition, landlord’s excuse, 13 |
Fires, see that title. |
First chapter in story of, 11 |
Gilder Commission, work of, 88, 105, 108, 116, 228, 276, 279, 281 |
Halls, unlighted, 90–92 |
Tenements—Health board fights, 30, 37 |
Height and jerrybuilding, 11–13 |
Home libraries, 382–383 |
Increase in population and overcrowding, 81–83 |
“Infant slaughter houses,” 37 |
Irish people, see that title. |
Italians, see that title. |
Jews, see that title. |
Kerosene stove, odor of, 92 |
Landlord’s profits, 90 |
Licensing, 153 |
Model tenements, erection and success of, 128–137 |
Negroes, see that title. |
Oneroom house, beginnings of, 97 |
Open spaces, see Parks. |
Opposition to improvement, 30–31 |
Overcrowding, see that title. |
Parks, see that title. |
Plans for improvements, 37 |
Political tenements, 149, 152 |
Population, see that title. |
Rear tenements—Condemned as “slaughter houses,” 37, 105, 116 |
Deathrate scandal, 115–116 |
Demolition, 114 |
Report of select committee of assembly, 1857, 12–13 |
Rome, 11 |
Standard of space for adults and children, 97 |
Sunlight, assessment of value, 94 |