Scribner's magazine . habitants of this town are now forced house was made wider ; but as the cityto pay for dwelHngs not fit for the grew, the land increased so greatly inlower animals. Unfortunately the same value that an eftbrt was made to occuj^vdivision of the land which led to the more of the 25 x 100 ft. lot than wasplan for these houses is the chief ob- consistent with the proper lighting ofstacle in the way of re-form. The houses are builton lots 25 X 100 ft. andgenerally about fivestories high. A regu-lation of the Board ofHealth limits the depthto ninety feet, so thatthere is a spac
Scribner's magazine . habitants of this town are now forced house was made wider ; but as the cityto pay for dwelHngs not fit for the grew, the land increased so greatly inlower animals. Unfortunately the same value that an eftbrt was made to occuj^vdivision of the land which led to the more of the 25 x 100 ft. lot than wasplan for these houses is the chief ob- consistent with the proper lighting ofstacle in the way of re-form. The houses are builton lots 25 X 100 ft. andgenerally about fivestories high. A regu-lation of the Board ofHealth limits the depthto ninety feet, so thatthere is a space of tenfeet by the width of thelot at the rear for course this is doub-led when similarhouses are erected backto back. In additionthere is usually a dia-mond-shaped court, so-called, or well, at thesides, about four feet\N4de, when the housesare built side by is to say, eachowner leaves a recessat the side of abouttwo feet by forty odd (as sh()\^^l in Fig. 4) ; n^ure-* each floor is arranged Plam D. THE NEIV YORK TENEMENT-HOUSE E^IL AND ITS CUKE 109 the interior. As a result, the centralpart of many of our so-called finehouses is unfit to live in. If this de-sire to cover too much of the landproved objectionable in houses occu-l)ied by one family, its results havebeen simply disastrous in houses occu-pied by several families. As everyone knows, the fashionablequarter of the town, first at the Bat-tery, has moved steadily and rapidly tothe north. As the rich people vacatedtheir houses to go farther uptown, theywere turned over to the poor. Housesbuilt for one family were occupied bytwice as many families as the building-had floors. As the older houses werecomparatively shallow, being- but tworooms deep, another house, known as arear tenement, was erected on the backof the lot, a space being left betweenthe old building and the new. Therear tenement was lighted simply fromthis space. There are many suchhouses in the city now, but the Boardof Health regulations
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