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Author / Creator:	De Forest, Robert W. (Robert Weeks), 1848-1931.
Imprint:	New York : The Macmillan Company, c1903.
Description:	2 v. (xxxi, 470, vii, 516 p.) : ill., maps (1 fold.), plans ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Rise of urban America
Subject:	Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York Building laws -- New York (State) -- New York. Poor -- New York (State) -- New York Building laws. Poor. Social conditions Tenement houses. New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions. New York (State) -- New York.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5604747

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Other authors / contributors:	Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959 joint ed. New York (State). Tenement House Commission
Notes:	Includes the report of the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900. Bibliography: p. 117-118 (2d group)

Table of Contents:

Volume I: Introduction: tenement reform in New York since 1901 / Robert W. DeForest
The tenement house problem (being the general report of the Commission) / Robert W. DeForest, Lawrence Veiller
Tenement house reform in New York City, 1834-1900 / Lawrence Veiller
Housing conditions in Buffalo / William A. Douglas, Williams Lansing
Housing conditions and tenement laws in leading American cities / Lawrence Veiller
Housing conditions and tenement laws in leading European cities / Winthrop E. Dwight
A statistical study of New York's tenement houses / Lawrence Veiller
The non-enforcement of the tenement house laws in new buildings / Lawrence Veiller
Tenement house fires in New York / Hugh Bonner, Lawrence Veiller
Tenement house fire-escapes in New York and Brooklyn / Hugh Bonner, Lawrence Veiller
Back to back tenements / Lawrence Veiller
Tenement house sanitation / Albert L. Webster
Small houses for working-men / H.L. Cargill
Financial aspects of recent tenement house operations in New York / Elgin R.L. Gould
The speculative building of tenement houses / Lawrence Veiller
Tenement evils as seen by the tenants
Tenement evils as seen by an inspector / C.A. Mohr
Tuberculosis and the tenement house problem / Hermann M. Biggs
The relation of tuberculosis to the tenement house problem / Arthur R. Guerard
Volume II: Parks and playgrounds for tenement districts / Lawrence Veiller
Prostitution as a tenement house evil / James B. Reynolds
Policy, a tenement house evil / F. Norton Goddard
Public baths / Frank Tucker
A plan for tenements in connection with a municipal park / I.N. Phelps Stokes
Foreign Immigration and the tenement house in New York City / Kate Holladay Claghorn
Appendices. The Proceedings of the Commission. The proposed Code of tenenment house laws. The Act for the creation of a separate tenement house department. Other proposed legislation. The Tenement house act (as amended in 1901, 1902, and 1903). A history of tenement house legislation in New York, 1852-1900 / Lawrence Veiller. Results of investigations in Buffalo in 1900 / William A. Douglas, Williams Lansing. Testimony of Building Department officials in relation to the non-enforcement of the tenement house laws in New York City. Tenement house rentals / Lawrence Veiller. Schedules, forms, and blanks used in the investigations of the Commission.

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