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Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.

Subject Index

Inquiry by United States government, disclosures, 175

Italians, see that title

Jews, see that title

Movement, 133

Overcrowding, see that title

Sweating, see that title

Potter, Bishop—Arraignment of Tammany corruption, 7073

Potter, Bishop—Pro-Cathedral, Stanton Street, 72, 182

Religious organizations, 182

Poverty Gap—Improvement, 5152

Mike, of Poverty Gap, 239240

Neckties, 51

Playground, 302

Prague, picture of city, incident, 204

Prison, see Tombs

Prostitution, Tammany organization, 6974

Public baths, see Baths

Public Education Association, reform work, 371, 372, 378

Public schools, see Schools

Push-cart men, Colonel Waring’s market scheme, 273

Quaker, builder of Gotham Court, 25

Rear tenements, see Tenements

Recreation piers, 292, 296, 299

Recruiting thief, 156, 164

Reformatory report on weak character of boys, 244

Reform by humane touch, 411440

Reform effects in thirteen years, 4254

Reform programme, 283285

River baths, free, 282

Riverside tenements built by A. T. White, 135, 140

Rivington Street—Bath-house, 281

Mills Houses, see that title

Park, attempt to establish, 293

Robberies—Great Robbery, city treasury, 45, 285

Meyer, D., thief, 238

Recruiting thief, 156, 164

Tweed, thief, 45, 285

Robbins, Dr. Jane E., woman doctor in the slums, 205206

Rome, slums of, 911

Roof gardens—Educational Alliance building, 388

Hebrew Institute, 305307

Roof playgrounds, public schools, 291, 342

Brass bands, 389395

Fight for, 385389

Hester Street school, 342, 359360

Success of, 389439

Roosevelt, Theodore—Election as Governor, 56

Law enforcement, 47, 235, 415, 418

Reform administration, 50, 414418