Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum

Riis, Jacob a.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 154727879X
ISBN13: 9781547278794
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 17 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A handful of Methodist women made the Five Points decent. To understand what that meant, look at the dens of death in Baxter Street, which were part of it, houses, says the health inspector, [7] into which the sunlight never enters ... that are dark, damp, and dismal throughout all the days of the year, and for which it is no exaggeration to say that the money paid to the owners as rent is literally the 'price of blood.' It took us twenty-four years after that to register the conviction in the form of law that that was good cause for the destruction of a tenement in cold blood; but we got rid of some at that time in a fit of anger. The mortality officially registered in those dens of death was 17.5 per cent of their population. We think now that the death-rate of New York is yet too high at 19 or 20 in a thousand of the living. A dozen steps away in Mulberry Street, called Death's Thoroughfare in the same report, were the Old Church Tenements, part of the Five Points and nearly the worst part. One of the largest contributors to the hospitals, this repulsive pile had seen the day when men and women sat under its roof and worshipped God. When the congregation grew rich, it handed over its house to the devil and moved up-town. That is not putting it too strong.

3 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Fiction

View All