Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-27 | Page 3 | One Bathtub is Pride of 1700 People

One Bathtub Is Pride of lZOOPeople UEW YORK, July 26. A housing survey of a block In East Thirty-third street, made for the state reconstruction re-construction commission, shows one bathtub In forty-three tenement houses in which live 1700 persons. The bathtub is the property of a saloonkeeper. It is for use by the owner and his family, and comparatively compara-tively few of the other 481 families on the block have even seen it. However, How-ever, the fact that the bathtub Is in existence Is one of the neighborhood prides. The next nearest approach to bathing bath-ing facilities discovered by the Investigators In-vestigators on that particular block was a stationary washtub, fitted up with a partition which can be lifted out on Saturday nights. The tenements on the block are far from overcrowded. There are 1573 rooms for 1703 men, women and children. chil-dren. Of the children 233 are under five years of age. There are twenty-nine twenty-nine boarders in the 462 tenanted apartments, none of whom has the privilege of using the only bathtub on the block.