CHAPTER V.

CAUSES OF CRIME--OVERCROWDING.

Form of New York--Its Effect on Population--Bad Government Increases Rents--Rate of Population to the Square Mile in the Eleventh Ward--In the Tenth, Seventeenth, and other Wards--In London--Greater Overcrowding in New York--Instance of Overcrowding in the First Ward--Effect on the Criminal Habits of Girls--The Dens of Criminal Boys--Cellar Population--Effect of Overcrowding on the Death-rate--Upon the Crime of the City-Remedies--Better Means of Distributing Population--Improved Communications with the Country--Cheap and Honest Government--Organized Movement for Transferring Labor to the Country--Remedy in Sanitary Legislation--Effect of British Lodging-house Acts--Cellar Population of Liverpool--The Model Lodging-houses--Great Need of them in New York..........................................................pp. 51-63