--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------- | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. --------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------- Italy | 25,485 | 14,076 | 16,033 | 29,312 | 44,274 | 43,927 | 28,810 Russia} | 7,577 | 12,432 | 16,578 | 23,987 | 33,203 | 33,052 | 31,329 Poland} | | | | | | | Hungary | 13,160 | 15,797 | 11,129 | 18,135 | 17,719 | 12,905 | 15,678 Bohemia | 4,877 | 7,093 | 6,697 | 4,222 | 6,449 | 3,982 | 5,412 --------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+-------- TENEMENTS. Number of tenements in New York, December 1, 1888 32,390 Number built from June 1, 1888, to August 1, 1890 3,733 Rear tenements in existence, August 1, 1890 2,630 Total number of tenements, August 1, 1890 37,316 Estimated population of tenements, August 1, 1890 1,250,000 Estimated number of children under five years in tenements, 1890 163,712 Corner tenements may cover all of the lot, except 4 feet at the rear. Tenements in the block may only cover seventy-eight per cent. of the lot. They must have a rear yard 10 feet wide, and air-shafts or open courts equal to twelve per cent. of the lot. Tenements or apartment houses must not be built over 70 feet high in streets 60 feet wide. Tenements or apartment houses must not be built over 80 feet high in streets wider than 60 feet. Transcriber's Note Incidental inconsistencies of punctuation are resolved silently. The following list contains other textual issues that are encountered. If there were no other correct instances of misspelled words (in current usage) they were allowed to stand. p. 74 disenfecting _sic_ p. 77 loadstone _sic_ p. 82 caravanseries _sic_ p. 107 tha[t/n] Corrected. p. 256 tantilizes _sic_ End of Project Gutenberg's How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A. Riis