(51.) Report of the
Tenement House Committee (Albany: James B.
--(1878c) "Urban Housing III: Use of Frontage, Width of Streets-the
Tenement Houses Possible on Smaller Lots." American Architect and Building News, 18 May: 125.
a grid of
tenement houses in rows of concrete block,
Tiedeman, "Suppression of Vice: How Far a Proper and Efficient Function of Popular Government," Brief 3 (1900): 17-28; "Disorderly
Tenement Houses," 26 March 1901, New York Times, card 535, vol.
The knowledge that the disease of workers -- who sewed clothes in their filthy
tenement houses or who processed food -- could spread to decent, clean, and respectable citizens gave society cause to worry.
His works depict childhood and youth in the
tenement houses of the east side of Oslo, where he grew up.
His extensive report included case histories of individual contractors and individual
tenement houses, as well as medical evidence of the deleterious effects of tobacco, expecially on pregnant women and their chances for healthy births.
A mural by local graffiti artist Alex Croft featuring rows of
tenement houses draws a constant stream of tourists to the steeply sloping Graham Street in downtown Central district.
Grossly overcrowded
tenement houses were breeding grounds of hardship, hunger and disease.
The parishioners were mostly poor, with many of them living in area
tenement houses actually owned by the church.
