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.
Health board fights, 30, 37.
Height and jerry-building, 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_.
One-room 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.
Death-rate 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.
Sweating, _see that title_.
Tenants, _see_ Population.
Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of, 142, 148, 149.
Up-town and down-town, 109-111.
Water supply, lack of, 181.
[_See also_ Slums.]
Thieves, _see_ Robberies.
Thieves' Alley demolition, 285, 286.
Tombs--
Demolition, proposed preservation of gates, 5.
School for boys awaiting trial, 378, 379.
Tweed, thief in, 4.
Tompkins Square--
Beresheim, Jacob, _see that title_.
Evening classes failure, 226.
Tracy, Dr. R. S., mortality records, 116.
Tramp vote, Tammany's use of, 48.
Trilby of Cat Alley, 331-333.
Trinity Church, opposition as tenement-house landlord, 30.
Truant school, fight for, 241, 242, 349, 350.
Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane, 366.
Trucks, street obstructions, disappearance, 45-46, 269-270.
Tuberculosis in the slums, 194-196, 300.
Tweed, thief, 4-5, 285.
Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of, 142, 148, 149.
United Garment Workers of America, compact, 1892, 198.
United States government slum inquiry, 61, 97, 175.
University Extension Society, work of, 3
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