How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New YorkRiis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
Number of deaths in prisons, New York, 1889 85
" " hospitals, New York, 1889 6,102
" " lunatic asylums, New York, 1889 448
" " institutions for children, New York, 1889 522
" " homes for aged, New York, 1889 238
" " almshouse, New York, 1889 424
" " other institutions, New York, 1889 162
Number of burials in city cemetery (paupers), New York, 1889 3,815
Percentage of such burials on total 9.64
Number of tenants weeded out of overcrowded tenements,
New York, 1889 1,246
Number of tenants weeded out of overcrowded tenements,
in first half of 1890[27] 1,068
Number of sick poor visited by summer corps of doctors,
New York, 1890 16,501
[Footnote 27: These figures represent less than two hundred of the
worst tenements below Houston Street.]
POLICE STATISTICS.
Males. Females.
Arrests made by the police in 1889 62,274 19,926
Number of arrests for drunkenness and disorderly
20,253 8,981
Number of arrests for disorderly conduct 10,953 7,477
" " assault and battery 4,534 497
" " theft 4,399 721
" " robbery 247 10
" " vagrancy 1,686 947
Prisoners unable to read or write 2,399 1,281
Number of lost children found in the streets, 1889 2,968
" sick and destitute cared for, 1889 2,753
Found sick in the streets 1,211
Number of pawnshops in city, 1889 110
" cheap lodging-houses, 1889 270
" saloons, 1889 7,884
IMMIGRATION.
Immigrants landed at Castle Garden in 20 years, ending
with 1889 5,335,396
Immigrants landed at Castle Garden in 1889 349,233
Immigrants from England landed at Castle Garden in
1889 46,214
Immigrants from Scotland landed at Castle Garden in
1889 11,415
Immigrants from Ireland landed at Castle Garden in
1889 43,090
Immigrants from Germany landed at Castle Garden in
1889 75,458
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