This document is an excerpt from a New York state commission investigation into living and working conditions in tenement houses
. These large apartment buildings in the city were known for their overcrowded and unsafe conditions. What significant issue did the commission find among the tenement workers?
The buildings were overcrowded and hygiene was extremely bad. Numerous people used a single bathroom and they could easily spread germs and bacteria could prosper and similar things like that. This caused a lot of health problems and death and the state commission understood that they had to change something if they were to help the people.
