ont of the buildings, which are used for the deposit of various articles by the tenants. This has been the condition of these buildings for a long time. The population in May, 1896, was 115 men, women and children in the rear houses, and 150 in the front houses. Whereas the death certificates show that during the past six years the annual death rate in New York was 24 to 1,000 in these houses, the death rate was 45.87 to 1,000. The death rate in these buildings was considerably higher than the death rate in the ward, and the infant death rate was abnormally high, so that in one year more than one-third of the children under 5 years of age in these buildings died. These deaths were largely caused by the diseases which are nourished by dampness and exposure to foul -air. All these facts not only appeared by the testimony, but .were entirely undisputed or unexplained, and although it was made to appear that such had been the condition of affairs in these buildings for several years, there was no pretense that any effort had ever been made to remedy such of them as were remediable, or that the buildings themselves were capable of being repaired or put into such condition as to be fit for human habitation.