SLUMLORDS HAD THE RESPONSIBILITIES TO:

  • keep the tenements clean 
  • ensure light, fresh air, and a healthy apartment for the benefit of the tenants
  • have proper fire safety planned in case of emergencies
PictureRow of Outhouses
These were the outhouses where many of the children that lived in the tenements drank from because they didn't have clean water. The children would drink the water and then they would become ill with cholera. Many of the children died from this disease. 

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Picture
"Entrance to tenements, 53 to 59 Macdougal St., N.Y., in which coats and flowers are made. Location: New York, New York " -Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division http://thehistorybox.com/ny_city/tenement_life_gallery.htm
Picture
"A picture, taken in 1900, of investigators  examining an overcrowded tenement house fit for nine. When burden[ed] by the prices of food, clothing, and even rent, most immigrants in New York were forced to live under unfit conditions in order to make ends meet."
- Tenement Housing Source
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