PROBLEM INCLUDING THE REPORT OF THE NEW YORK STATE TENEMENT HOUSE COMMISSION OF 1900 BY VARIOUS WRITERS EDITED BY ROBERT W. DEFOREST AND LAWRENCE VEILLER IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1903/ All rights reserved PREFACE THIS book is published as a contribution to the cause of municipal reform, to report progress made and to guide progress still to come. It embodies the result of the investigations made in connection with the work of the New York State Tenement House Commission appointed by President Roosevelt when he was governor of the State of New York in 1900. It also includes the Tenement House Law as amended and an introduction bringing down the history of Tenement Reform in New York to 1903. |