Consumption, its relation to man and his civilization, its prevention and cure / by John Bessner Huber.

  • Huber, John Bessner, 1864-
Date:
[1906], [©1906]
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Credit: Consumption, its relation to man and his civilization, its prevention and cure / by John Bessner Huber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    First Ward, where the average density per acre is low, the density per room is without doubt very high, since much of its area is occupied by warehouses and other buildings devoted to busmess purposes. The houses here occupied as dwellings are old and un- improved. This is the site of the Syrian colony, other inhabitants than these being chiefly Irish. RIVINQTON GRAND DENSITY OF POPULATION. 1900. I I Lees than 100 persons per acPB tysVA*^ 100-199 .. m'/'l^A 200-299 I 30<V399 I 400-499 I 500 and over 2. DEATH-RATE FROM CONSUMPTION, 1901. I I Lees than 20 per lO/XK) living N'vS'sVM 20-29 '• K'^^ 30-30 .« << 40-49 ■• 50-59 Fig. 27.—Borough of Manhattan by wards. (Brandt.) The Sixth Ward contains Chinatown, and the rest of the ward is made up mostly of solid tenement blocks of the same dreadful type as the two that were razed some years ago in Mulberry Bend; hence the high death-rate from consumption. The Fourth Ward is one of the oldest and most unsanitary districts in the city; the main element in its population is the lowest type of Irish-Americans, whose physical constitutions are weakened by ex- cesses of all sorts on their own part and that of their parents. These