orthern extremity, and' .eleven feet at its Widest part. This court was entirely surrounded by buildings, the lowest of which .were ■ three stories high. The , front buildings facing on Mott street, the rear'of .which formed the front wall of this court, were four stories high. , On each end of this narrow court were buildings over forty feet high,' and the rear of the coiirt was formed by the wall of the buildings in question, which were five stories high. At the southeast corner of this court there was a space, of eleven inches between, the rear wall of the building on the next lot-and- the south wall of: the building in question, but except for that space of eleven inches, there was no way in which fresh air could reach that court except’ from the top. The north and south walls of these buildings weredead walls without any windows or ventilation whatever, except a small window on the north side of each story. The east wall stood next to a dead wall and about eight inches from it, so that the space between the east wall of the tenements in question and a blank wall of the buildings several stories in height, just east of it, was ninety-one feet long and eight inches wide. As might be expected, this space was "full of all sorts of tilth, and its condition was such as to be unmentionable. The apartments in these buildings consisted of three rooms a front room lighted and ventilated by two windows, each five feet by three, opening into the front courtyard, and two bedrooms in the rear, each eight feet high and six feet ten inches square, and lighted by a single window two feet square, opening on to the court eight inches wide, and having no other ventilation, except that the bedrooms on the northeast corner on each floor had a window opening on the north into a yard. But