. Town and city. Rubbish in the Courtyard RESULTS OF OVERCROWDING 13 of course, the rents are lower here and the people morecrowded. Remember these facts and read the following De Forest, in his book called The Tenement HouseProblem, tells us that, inthe First Ward, in tene-ments which had nohouses behind them, abouttwenty-nine people diedout of each thousand thatlived there; whereas, inthe same ward, when therewas a rear tenement, thedeaths rose to sixty-onefor each thousand of theoccupants. Sadder yet, insuch places, when an epi-demic once had a start,nothing stopped it,—young an
. Town and city. Rubbish in the Courtyard RESULTS OF OVERCROWDING 13 of course, the rents are lower here and the people morecrowded. Remember these facts and read the following De Forest, in his book called The Tenement HouseProblem, tells us that, inthe First Ward, in tene-ments which had nohouses behind them, abouttwenty-nine people diedout of each thousand thatlived there; whereas, inthe same ward, when therewas a rear tenement, thedeaths rose to sixty-onefor each thousand of theoccupants. Sadder yet, insuch places, when an epi-demic once had a start,nothing stopped it,—young and old, strong andweak, all seemed doomed. This is bad enough forgrown folks, but babies always suffer most in suchplaces. In those rear tenements, therefore, the deathrate for babies rose to two hundred and four for everythousand ; that is, one baby died for every five that wereborn. When men began to realize all this, they called. Where Microbes Live Two YearsAND Longer 14 TOWN AND CITY those places infant slaughter houses, for they said thatthe condition of the buildings killed the babies. In Berlin, Germany, in 1885, there were over thirteenhundred thousand residents, and seventy-three thousandof them lived in families in one-room tenements. Thatmeans that each family lived, slept, cooked, and ate in thesame room. They were distributed as follows: In one-room tenements 73,ooo In two-room tenements 382,000 In three-room tenements . 432,000 In four-room tenements ... 398,000 Now compare those figures with this other table whichshows the death rate in each set of rooms: Per Thousand In one-room tenements In two-room tenements In three-room tenements . ... ... In four-room tenements These astounding figures showed that families infour-room tenements were thirty times as likely to livethrough the year as those in one-room tenements. Theexplanation is the old one that we began to understand
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