Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
| Tenements—Airshaft, 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 |
| Deathrate, 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 |
| Tenements—Health board fights, 30, 37 |
| Height and jerrybuilding, 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. |
| Oneroom 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 |
| Deathrate 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 |