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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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v-ered by buildings; others running from 80 per cent, to 86per cent, and a total average for 34 blocks showing 78.13 ofthe area built upon. The lower end of New York islandcontains more inhabitants to the acre than any other city inthe world—143.2 persons. Paris comes next with 125.2 peracre, followed by Berlin with 113.6. A district in the Elev-enth Ward, bounded by Second, Columbia, Rivington, andClinton streets and Avenue B, contains 986.4 persons to eachof its thirty-two acres. The nearest known approach to thisis a district in Bombay which, in 1881, had a population of759.66 to the acre. The Tenth Ward contains an average of57.2 persons to each house. Such instances of over-crowdingare cited as a family of eleven persons living in two rooms. In such a condition of affairs the privacy of home life isan utter impossibility, and the result is detrimental to themoral and material welfare of the city. The extent to whichthe morality, integrity, and civic virtue of a city are depend-
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no The Great North Side. Ill ent on the character of the home life of its citizens cannot beoverestimated. A city missionary says : I knew a family in Church Street whose immoral condi-tion was traced directly to being forced to herd like cattle.The father was an educated man of fifty-eight years; themother was fifty, the son thirty-one, and the daughter twenty.For this family there was one three-quarter sized bed. Themoral sense of the young man and woman had become soblunted that they seemed utterly devoid of shame. Says another writer : 4< In over-crowding the children are never counted. Youwill find them sleeping five or six in one bed, and that bed isoften a closet with a few boards nailed across the front, andfilled with rags, these rags swarming very likely with fevergerms, but rarely without more immediately troublesome, ifless fatal occupants. The following statistics furnished by Mr. Carroll D.Wright, Commissioner of Labor in charge of the Ceusus Office *at Washington, il

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