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Show forelrn born are huddled toReTher, Dr., Copetand sees a danger not only to the1 health of th country but to tin civil illation. illa-tion. Spread of Americanization In repelled under auch a com! it ion he maintained, and there i rImi tlie iotent'.il danger of multiplying the spread of infectious diaeaaes. Itrtween March and !ecember, 1920. the health department surveys show-overcrow show-overcrow din increased from 1 to -6 per cent Ihrounhout the greater city. The jercenta.fe doubled in the Kronx and Krew from 27 to S9 per cent in Manhattan, the other borough ahnw-ItiR ahnw-ItiR only alight chang. In the purvey a totut of C0.4HS buildings build-ings were Inspected. The number of lodger, renting mom from thoae occupying oc-cupying apartments, tenement quarter and other dwelling Increased fnun BABIES OOBII III OICI'IO QUAB Housin Problem in N. Y. Treated From Hntirely .New Alible NKW YoKK. Jan. 1- Ww York Citv during lid intensified It discomforting -practice of sheltering several people here only one had lived b'fore and "'overcrowding increased with each paas-injf paas-injf month. Ii-.it the city thrived under these condition, the mortality rate be- 3 1 . 61 to during the eight months i befween aur e . J There were few vara nt apartment. the nurvry revealed. The number .was ' In Manhattan. 193 in the Itronx and ISC 'In Krookln. 'Tninhabttable conditions" condi-tions" existed in many of these. In others oth-ers the rentals ranged from to $ti(Hio u je;ir -beyond the reach of the ordinary cm ir.en, Ir. 'npeland Raid. .Many dwellinga. he noted, were de-moliHhed de-moliHhed to "make way for theaters. Karaites and warehouse,' ina; Jlie Jpmest in the hintory of health departim-nt record-. A anrvey of the hoiiniiiK situation ehowed that of U.touo b.il'iett tnirn in the metropolis hiHt year loo.ouu were born In crowded tenements. ilenlth 'ommiwsloner ( 'npeland ewtimated that the Kputatlon would Increase another million In ten yeara and that 800.000 of thea people would be compelled to "ahoehorn" themselves Into tenementa. In the fetid atmosphere of these crowd-ed crowd-ed atructiires where the iMior anil the |