Slums and Questions

On November 3, I had another english class at the Brooklyn Historic Society. The map that caught my attention was the Slum Clearance Atlas. It was made by the Slum Clearance Committee of New York from 1933 to 1934. The atlas consist of the boroughs. But there were several maps of each borough that had the population of different things. Such as population of foreign born. There were also maps of the crime rate, infant mortality rate, of crime rate, vehicle accident deaths and the monthly rent. This was taken from the U.S. census in 1930. I looked at the map of Brooklyn of the infant mortality and I realized the majority of infant deaths were in the same areas of those who’s rent was low. It was also the same areas where there was known to be a lot of industries. That brought a lot of questions to my attention. I inferred that those who weren’t so wealthily and couldn’t afford proper health care, lost more infants then those who could afford proper health.