Housing Survey Shows Pros gressively Worse Condition Dee. 5.—Overcrowding in this city has increased more than 25 per cent. this Summer, according. to the figures of the latest housing survey by the Department of Health, made public yesterday. In Manhattan the overcrowding in the Spring was estimated at 26.6 wer cent., and now it igs 38.8; in the Bronx in the Spring it was 18.9 per cent., and now it is 33.1 per cent.; in Brooklyn overcrowding has remained practically stationary at about 11.4 per cent, n making the silvey 32,470 houses in manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx were investigated. The sections selected were the same as those visited in the Spring, with the addition of a section in Manhattan between 86th and 110th Streets and' Central Park West and the river and the Park Slope, Brookly "The result of this survey compared to that made in the Spring shows a progressively worse condition of overcrowding," said Health Commissioner Copeland. "We have found that the double ing wp of families has continued and the letting of rooms to lodgers as a means of meeting high rents jhas become general."
he survey showed that in Man-hatton in so-called private homes, which include apartments, there (43.483 lodgers; in the Bronx 18,221, and in Brookl) a total of 69.989. The report, It is evident from our morbidity and mortality. statistics that, the sections m seriously jover-crowded show the highest infant death rate. Tuberculosis and other diseases of the respiratory tract are present in these overcrowded sections in greater proportion." caribed by the fire has been almost repaired, and near by two huge dry docks are being prepared to receive the 56,000 ton leviathan.
This vessel, which is larger than the Vaterland and the Imperator, is to be handed over to the Allies.
In the Vulcan yards, and_ the huge establishment of the Neue Deutsche Werft, which was created during the war out of a number of -|small yards, many vessels are being built—up to 20,000 tons for passenger traffic, and from 2,000 to 8,000 tons for cargo.
T asked an official if 20,000 tons kely to be the limit in future forg&erman ships.
"It will be for a long time,'? he said. 'I do not think another Bismarck will ever be built here. The cost makes it impossible."
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