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Part 1 The lower depths: "...look and pass" - redemption, and theshameful life; two nations; the virgilian invitation; urban poverty; Griscomas a city inspector; Dana at five points; Dr Smith discovers a typhusfever-nest; a decade of struggle; two enemies of reform; the citizens'association conducts a sanitary survey; the metropolitan health bill. Part 2"THE HEART SICKENS AT SUCH A NARRATIVE" - Madame Restell: the invention of acelebrated female physician; abortion - economics and etiquette; Mrs Purdy,Mrs M., Mary Rogers and the case of Eliza Ann Munson; signs of the decay ofcontemporary morality; Mary Applegate and Maria Bodine; joining the "ShoddyAristocracy" of New York; family life; "This is a murderous age". Part 3"SLIPPERY DICK": on the art of rising in the city; patronage; the struggleagainst the mayor; "War Democrats"; plots and counter-plots; comptroller forthe "Ring"; the case of the missing vouchers; betrayal!. Part 4 "NEW YORKDEMANDS A PARK AND WILL HAVE IT, BE THE COST WHAT IT MAY": waste land; thepark idea; downing; the decision to build a park; organizing andreorganizing; Olmsted. Appendix: the committee of seventy.