SLUMMING IN NEW YORK.
Slumming in New York, provides writers with pictures as sensational as any we are accustomed to at Home. A lady, discussing in Tlie Forum the tenement-house problem in New York, illustrates the overcrowding in these striking sentences :^— " In some rooms you will in the daytime see mattressea piled up till they touch the ceiling,; at night, when the ' boarders ' stream in from their day's work, these mattresses are taken down and spread over the floor, touching each other. Forty-five people sometimes sleep in one room." There are said to be 30,000 tenement houses in New York, and two thousand of them are recognised in official statistics to be "very bad." — Daily News. . . ?
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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 June 1888, Page 2
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