----------------+------------------+------------+--------------------- | POPULATION. | DEATHS. | DEATH-RATE. +------+----+------+---+---+----+------+-------+------ | A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | D ----------------+------+----+------+---+---+----+------+-------+------ Baxter Street | 1,918| 315| 2,233| 26| 46| 72| 13.56| 146.02| 32.24 Mulberry Street | 2,788| 629| 3,417| 44| 86| 130| 15.78| 136.70| 38.05 +------+----+------+---+---+----+------+-------+------ Total | 4,706| 944| 5,650| 70|132| 202| 14.87| 139.83| 35.75 ----------------+------+----+------+---+---+----+------+-------+------ The general death-rate for the whole city that year was 26.27. These figures speak for themselves, when it is shown that in the model tenement across the way at Nos. 48 and 50, where the same class of people live in greater swarms (161, according to the record), but under good management, and in decent quarters, the hearse called that year only twice, once for a baby. The agent of the Christian people who built that tenement will tell you that Italians are good tenants, while the owner of the alley will oppose every order to put his property in repair with the claim that they are the worst of a bad lot. Both are right, from their different stand-points. It is the stand-point that makes the difference--and the tenant. [Illustration: BANDITS' ROOST.] What if I were to tell you that this alley, and more tenement property in "the Bend," all of it notorious for years as the vilest and worst to be found anywhere, stood associated on the tax-books all through the long struggle to make its owners responsible, which has at last resulted in a qualified victory for the law, with the name of an honored family, one of the "oldest and best," rich in possessions and in influence, and high in the councils of the city's government? It would be but the plain truth. Nor would it be the only instance by very many that stand recorded on the Health Department's books of a kind that has come near to making the name of landlord as odious in New York as it has become in Ireland.