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Page 5 - Brighton, Cove, Ann, and other streets. These houses, for the most part, are not occupied by a single family, or even by two or three families ; but each room, from garret to cellar, is filled with a family consisting of several persons, and sometimes with two or more families.
Page 5 - It is sufficient to say, that this whole district is a perfect hive of human beings, without comforts and mostly without common necessaries ; in many cases, huddled together like brutes, without regard to sex, or age, or sense of decency ; grown men and women sleeping together in the same apartment, and sometimes wife and husband, brothers and sisters, in the same bed.
Page 6 - One cellar was reported by the police to be occupied nightly as a sleeping apartment, by thirty-nine persons. In another, the tide had risen so high that it was necessary to approach the bedside of a patient by means of a plank, which was laid from one stool to another ; while the dead body of an infant was actually sailing about the room in its coffin.
Page 6 - flophouse" system was found where a bedding of loose straw cost two cents a night or bare floor space one cent. In such places black and white people, men, women, and children, were "mixed in one dirty mass." Bedrooms were found "without air, without light, filled with damp vapour from the mildewed walls, and with vermin; they are the most repulsive holes that ever a human being was forced to sleep in.
Page 20 - If public benevolence," adds M. Fregier, from whose account the foregoing is abridged, " can ever be applied with success to the moral amendment of the people, it will certainly be by active concurrence in the establishment and multiplication of these asylums, no less by gifts than by advice.
Page 6 - The second, into which two beds were crowded, served as a family sleeping-room, whilst the third, a dungeon six feet square and the same in height, with no aperture for the admission of air save the narrow door, which was closed at night, served to accommodate boarders. The landlord said the tide came through the floor of his rooms but rarely! One cellar was reported by the police to be occupied nightly as a sleeping-apartment for thirty-nine persons.
Page 10 - Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes " in London, is a guaranty of the beneficence of such undertakings. This society was *" The Habitations of the Industrial Classes,
Page 5 - During their visits last summer, your Committee were witnesses of scenes too painful to be forgotten, and yet too disgusting to be related here. It is sufficient to say, that this whole district is a perfect hive of human beings, without comforts and mostly without common necessaries; in many cases, huddled together like brutes, without regard to sex, or age, or sense of decency: grown men and women sleeping...
Page 19 - My opinion is," says the Report, " that, of the whole number, from eight to nine hundred (from neglect and bad habits) are not fit to enter any of our present schools. From the best information which I can obtain, I am satisfied that the whole number in the city at the present time (including the above number) is not less than 1,500 of the same class as those described.