. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . nd parlor. The second, intoSwhich two beds were crowded, served^as the family sleeping-room, whilst^the third, a dungeon six feet square,and the same in height, (with noaperture for the admission of air,Plan of Cellar in Bread Street. 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! We have procured a sketch of the appearance of one of these subterranean apart-ments. It gives a fair ideaof the mode of stowing the
. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . nd parlor. The second, intoSwhich two beds were crowded, served^as the family sleeping-room, whilst^the third, a dungeon six feet square,and the same in height, (with noaperture for the admission of air,Plan of Cellar in Bread Street. 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! We have procured a sketch of the appearance of one of these subterranean apart-ments. It gives a fair ideaof the mode of stowing thebedsteads, and of its contract-ed dimensions ; but cannotgive an adequate impressionof its darkness and its loath-someness. The family waswarned by the visiting physi-cian of the district not topermit these inner rooms tobe occupied; yet he Avas call-ed a few nights after, to see aman in this very den, who, twoor three hours previously,was in apparent good health,but had then already reachedthe stage of hopeless collapse,to be occupied nightly, as aIn another the tide had. Subterranean Bedroom in Bread Street. One cellar was reported by the policesleeping apartment, by thirty-nine persons !risen so high that it was necessary to approach the bedside of a patientby means of a plank, which was laid from one stool to another ; whilethe dead body of an infant was actually sailing about the room in itscoffin ! Many of the inhabited cellars in this vicinity are inundated by theback-water of the drains during high tides ; and being entirely belowthe level of the sidewalks, they are necessarily, therefore, almost en-tirely without light or ventilation. But, far from being considered ahardship, a residence in them is considered preferable to loftier apart-ments. They are said to be cooler in summer and warmer in winter,and consequently command higher rents. Another locality, which furnished quite a number of victims, isshown in the following view. It is a nest of miserable tenements a tt
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