Tenement House Committee, volunteer, formation and work of, 143. Tenement House Department, creation of, 147-148. Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, effect of, 143-147. Tenements-- Air-shaft, tenants' uses and peril of, 93. Alfred Corning Clark buildings, 129, 130. Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment, 20-21. Building Department supervision, 104. Children, _see that title_. Christmas trees, _see that title_. Citizens' council of hygiene, report, 1866, 19. City and Suburban Homes Company, _see that title_. City control of building proposed, 152. Death-rate, _see that title_. "Dens of death," 14, 20. Destruction, _see_ Demolition. "Discretion" clause in building laws, 88, 105, 107, 148. Disease--disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, 143-147. Double-deckers, _see that title_. Factory tenements, disapproval of, 134. Filthy condition, landlord's excuse, 13. Fires, _see that title_. First chapter in story of, 11. Gilder Commission, work of, 88, 105, 108, 116, 228, 276, 279, 281. Halls, unlighted, 90-92. Health board fights, 30, 37. Height and jerry-building, 11-13. Home libraries, 382-383. Increase in population and overcrowding, 81-83. "Infant slaughter houses," 37. Irish people, _see that title_. Italians, _see that title_. Jews, _see that title_. Kerosene stove, odor of, 92. Landlord's profits, 90. Licensing, 153. Model tenements, erection and success of, 128-137. Negroes, _see that title_. One-room house, beginnings of, 97. Open spaces, _see_ Parks. Opposition to improvement, 30-31. Overcrowding, _see that title_. Parks, _see that title_. Plans for improvements, 37. Political tenements, 149, 152. Population, _see that title_. Rear tenements-- Condemned as "slaughter houses," 37, 105, 116. Death-rate scandal, 115-116. Demolition, 114. Report of select committee of assembly, 1857, 12-13. Rome, 11. Standard of space for adults and children, 97. Sunlight, assessment of value, 94. Sweating, _see that title_. Tenants, _see_ Population. Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of, 142, 148, 149. Up-town and down-town, 109-111. Water supply, lack of, 181. [_See also_ Slums.] Thieves, _see_ Robberies. Thieves' Alley demolition, 285, 286. Tombs-- Demolition, proposed preservation of gates, 5. School for boys awaiting trial, 378, 379. Tweed, thief in, 4. Tompkins Square-- Beresheim, Jacob, _see that title_. Evening classes failure, 226. Tracy, Dr. R. S., mortality records, 116. Tramp vote, Tammany's use of, 48. Trilby of Cat Alley, 331-333. Trinity Church, opposition as tenement-house landlord, 30. Truant school, fight for, 241, 242, 349, 350. Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane, 366. Trucks, street obstructions, disappearance, 45-46, 269-270.