How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York With Introductory Chapters and a Riis Chronology (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

THERE is another line not always so readily drawn in the tenements, yet the real boundary line of the Other Half: the one that defines the "flat." The law does not draw it at all, accounting all flats tenements without distinction. The health officer draws it from observation, lumping all those which in his judgment have nothing, or not enough, to give them claim upon the name, with the common herd.