The tenement districts of New York are places in which thousands of people are living in the smallest space in which it is possible for human beings to exist — crowded together in dark, ill-ventilated rooms, in many of which the sunlight never enters... American Illustrated Magazine - Página 2361909Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1902 - 742 páginas
...its results upon the health of the people but upon the moral and social conditions as well. In them people are living in the smallest space in which it is possible for human beings to exist. The rooms are centres of disease, poverty, vice, and crime ; in fact, all the conditions which surround... | |
| New York (State). Department of Social Welfare - 1902 - 570 páginas
...5. Foul cellars and courts, and other like evils, which may be classed as bad housekeeping. * * * " The tenement districts of New York are places in which...people are living in the smallest space in which it is pos27 sible for human beings to exist — crowded together in dark, illventilated rooms in many of... | |
| Jacob August Riis - 1903 - 264 páginas
...both. The city tenements are the crowded highway. Listen to this description of them in my own city : " The tenement districts of New York are places in which...and in most of which fresh air is unknown. They are centres of disease, poverty, vice and crime, where it is a marvel — not that children grow up to... | |
| Robert Weeks De Forest, Lawrence Veiller - 1903 - 644 páginas
...manifest itself in the tenej ini'hi s ; the wonder is that there is not more vice in such districts. Thu tenement districts of New York are places in which...of which the sunlight never enters and in most of 1 ' which fresh air is unknown. They are centres of disease, poverty, vice, and crime, where it is... | |
| Robert Weeks De Forest, Lawrence Veiller - 1903 - 630 páginas
...should manifest itself in the tenements ; the wonder is that there is not more vice in such districts. The tenement districts of New York are places in which...human beings to exist — crowded together in dark, ill- ventilated rooms, in many of which the sunlight never enters and in most of which fresh air is... | |
| Edward Thomas Devine - 1904 - 546 páginas
...Economic and Social History of New England," Weeden, Vol. I, p. 226. Other colonies had similar statutes. in which it is possible for human beings to exist...and in most of which fresh air is unknown. They are centres of disease, poverty, vice, and crime, where it is a marvel, not that some children grow up... | |
| Edward Thomas Devine - 1904 - 512 páginas
...5. Foul cellars and courts, and other like evils, which may be classed as bad housekeeping. . . . " The tenement districts of New York are places in which...thousands of people are living in the smallest space 1 In the seventeenth century, the Massachusetts General Court forbade the use of tobacco publicly or... | |
| Leonhard Felix Fuld - 1909 - 592 páginas
...is that there is not more vice in such districts. The tenement districts of New York are localities in which thousands of people are living in the smallest...sunlight never enters, and in most of which fresh air is all but unknown. They are centers of disease, poverty, vice, and crime, where it is a marvel not that... | |
| 1920 - 836 páginas
...write of those districts somewhat thus: The city of the tenements is the city of thousands of people living in the smallest space in which it is possible...enters and in most of which fresh air is unknown. It is a city of disease, poverty, vice and crime where it is a marvel, not that some children grow... | |
| John Harvey Kellogg - 1902 - 36 páginas
...evil, Dr. Gould spoke as follows in reference to this condition in New York City: "The tenementhouse districts of New York are places in which thousands...exist. Crowded together in dark, ill-ventilated rooms, many of which the sunlight never enters, they are centers of disease, poverty, vice, and crime. The... | |
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