Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
| Addams, Miss J., Chicago work, 365, 395 |
| Adler, Professor F., reform work, 71–72, 371, 402 |
| Air-shaft in tenements, tenants’ uses and peril of, 93 |
| Alfred Corning Clark buildings, 129, 130 |
| Allen Street—Children seeking “the commissioner” for justice, 59–60 |
| One-room houses, beginnings of, 97 |
| School building, 354, 357 |
| Anderson, Mrs. A. A., bath gift to city, 282 |
| Armenian Christmas tree, contribution of poor children, 218 |
| Association for improving condition of the poor—Baths, public, 282 |
| Housing reform movement, 128 |
| Work of, 285 |
| Athletic meets, Crotona Park, 366 |
| Bacillus of the slum, 62 |
| Balkan peninsula, immigration from, 202 |
| Bands, roof playgrounds, 389–395 |
| Barney of Cat Alley, 333–339 |
| Baron Hirsch Fund, see Hirsch Fund |
| Baths, public—Anderson, Mrs. A. A., gift, 282 |
| Association for improving condition of poor, work of 282 |
| Free river baths, 282 |
| Hamilton Fish Park, Tammany use of, 149–152 |
| Baths, public—Lack of public baths scandal, 281 |
| Mott Street bath, 282 |
| Plans for system of municipal baths, 282–283 |
| Rivington Street, 281 |
| Shower-baths for public schools, 283 |
| Battle Row—Gang, Easter service, 251–252 |
| Improvement, 135 |
| Baxter Street “dens of death,” 14, 20 |
| Beds, Mills Houses, 159 |
| Beginning of the battle, 1–4 |
| Bellevue, scandal during Tammany government, 66 |
| Bend, see Mulberry Bend. |
| Ben Wah, Mrs., and her parrot, story of, 441–449 |
| Beresheim, Jacob—Arrest for murder, 227 |
| Birth in tenement, 228 |
| Law-breaking, 234 |
| Life and environment, 227–236 |
| Schooling neglected, 231 |
| Berlin death-rate, 124 |
| Big Flat, Mott Street—Carriage factory in place of, 32 |
| Instance of reform still-born, 27 |
| Blacksmith, Patrick Mullen, 413–414 |
| Bleeker Street house, see Mills Houses. |
| B’nai B’rith “removal plan,” 215 |
| Bone Alley, destruction, 279–281, 285 |
| Boss, character of, 420–429 |
| Bottle Alley, Whyo gang headquarters, 272, 308 |