The Battle with the SlumRiis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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The Battle with the Slum
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
Poor; Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
Clubs, _see that title_.
Increase of child crime, 225, 240-242.
Landlords of tenements, Greenwood story, 96.
Neglect of, 225-226, 233.
Schools, _see that title_.
Tagging lost children proposed, 92.
Tenements as "infant slaughter houses," 37.
Children's Aid Society--
Report as to condition and neglect of children, 225.
Rescue of boys, 245.
Cholera panic, 1866, 4, 29.
Christmas trees--
Armenian, contribution of poor children, 218.
Gotham Court, 311.
Santa Claus in the slums, 94, 310-311.
Church Federation, Fifteenth Assembly District--
Baths, investigation, 281.
Educational agencies and saloons, 129-130, 292.
Churches--
Movement up-town, 232.
Neglect of the young, 232.
Reform movement attitude, 399, 435-437.
Citizens' council of hygiene, report 1866, 19.
City and Suburban Homes Company--
Erection of model tenements, 129-137.
Homewood plan, 137-138.
Management, 136.
City History Club, work of, 379.
Cleaning the streets, Colonel Waring's work, 45-46, 268-272, 415.
Clubs--
Buck, Miss W., work of, 373, 383.
East Side boys' demand for club room, 372.
Gangs, _see that title_.
Good Government Clubs, _see that title_.
Jackson Pleasure Club, School No. 160, 374-377.
Meeting, management of Miss W. Buck, 373.
People's Club, work of, 381.
Saloon room, 372.
School classroom plan, 372-374.
Willard, D., work of, 378-379.
College settlement, _see_ University settlement.
Colored people, _see_ Negroes.
Committee of Fifteen, evidence of Tammany corruption, 74.
Consumers' League, work of, 196-201.
Convalescents' home, gift for, 396.
Cooking classes, advantages of, 367-368.
Cooper Institute, educational work, 380.
Cottages, Homewood plan, 137-138.
Crime--
Boys, _see that title_.
Child crime, increase of, 225, 240-242.
Gangs, _see that title_.
Italian criminals discovered in Mulberry Street, 204-205.
Lodging houses as "nurseries of crime," 54, 156.
"Weakness not wickedness," reformatory verdict, 244.
[_See also_ Murders _and_ Robberies.]
Croker, R.--
Abdication, 75.
Election of 1900, 73.
[_See also_ Tammany.]
Crotona Park athletic meets, 366.
Crowding, _see_ Overcrowding.
"Cruller fire," tenement house, 88.
Cutting, R. F., erection of homes for working people, 129.
Dalmatia, immigration from, 202.
Dancing, school roof playgrounds, 392-793.
Death-rates--
Berlin, 124.
Double-deckers, lowest mortality, 114-115.
First Ward, 116.
Five Points "dens of death," 16.
Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance, 125-126.
Mott Street barracks, 123.
Rear tenants scandal, 115.
Reduction, council of hygiene's judgment, 19.
Reform effects on, 125-126.
Deaths in Cat Alley, 325-330.
Death's Thoroughfare, Old Church tenements, 16.
Democratic government imperilled by existence of slum, 6.
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