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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
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owding 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, illustrate the over-crowding of New Yorkshabitations as compared with the other large cities of theUnited States, the statistics of course referring to old NewYork as distinguished from Greater New York : AVERAGE NUMBER OF PERSONS TO A DWELLING. 1890. 1880. New York 18.52 16.37 8.60 8.24 5.60 5.79 Brooklyn 9.80 9.11 St. Louis 7.41 8.15 Boston 8.52 8.26 6.02 6.54 San Francisco . 6.34 6.86 Average number of families to a dwelling : New York 3.82, Chicago 1.72, Philadelphia 1.10, Brooklyn 2.08, St. Louis 1.51, Boston 1.70, Baltimore 1.20, San Fran- cisco, 1.11.
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112 The Great North Side. 113 In New York 66.70$ of its total population live in dwell-ings containing more than 20 persons each ; in Chicago 16.63;in Philadelphia 3.41; Brooklyn 25.70; Baltimore 2.55. Itwill be observed that 2/3 of New Yorks population live incrowded houses, while but 1/28 of Philadelphias populationdo—an amazing difference ! In striking contrast with the statistics for the entire Cityof New York, are the figures for the 23d and 24th Wards,which comprise the district known as the North Side or Bor-ough of the Bronx. While the average number of families toa dwelling in the entire city is 3.82, for the 23d Ward it is1.84, and for the 24th Ward 1.14 which latter is as favorablea showing as that of such distinctively home cities asPhiladelphia or Baltimore. Also, while the number of dwell-ings occupied by but one family is 45.9bfc of the whole num-ber for the city at large, for the 23d Ward it is 60.86, and forthe 24th Ward, 90.04. These figures do not include the re-c

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