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| | IV. The Blight of the Double-Decker. Riis, Jacob A. 1902. The Battle with the Slum |
 | | This is the process of doubling up,literally, since the cause and the vehicle of it all is the double-decker tenement,which in the year 1900 had crowded a single block in that ward at the rate of 1724 persons per acre, and one in the Eleventh Ward at the rate of 1894. |
 | | It was a huge stone arm, torn from the shoulder of some rock image, with doubled fist and every rigid muscle instinct with angry menace. |
 | | The Health Departments census for the first half of 1898 gave a total of 82,175 persons living in 1201 tenements, with 313 inhabited buildings yet to be heard from. |
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