Division of Tenement House Inspection Annual Reports 1907/1913

Description

This data was prepared by Rosalie Garfinkle as a course project for LIS 2970 Open Government Data in the Master of Library Program at the University of Pittsburgh. These six historical datasets are transcribed from the annual reports done by the Division of Tenement House Inspection for the Bureau/Department of Public Health of the City of Pittsburgh. The goal of this Division was to canvas working-class housing and improve the living conditions of these tenement houses. Reports were published each year from 1907 to 1913 (with 1907 only showing data for ten months of the year, March-December). In 1914, the Division of Tenement House Inspection and the Division of Sanitary Inspection were combined and began to work together. For a more in-depth history of the Bureau/Department of Public Health and the reports from the Division of Tenement House Inspection, see the readme file included here. The six datasets included here are data on the violations corrected in tenements houses from 1907-1913; a summary of inspections conducted from 1907-1913; a record of tenement houses in the city in 1912, the number of apartments in houses in 1912; height of tenement houses by story for the front and rear of the building in 1912. For all 1912 datasets, please refer to this map linked below for context regarding the wards listed in the data. This data was published by the Department of Public Health and obtained through the University of Pittsburgh’s Archives & Special Collections. A guide to data from the City's health department can be found here: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:US-PPiU-ais197428/from_search/3debdacfbde1f422c76e36d68ea54a7f-3

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 Defines the fields in the "Violations Corrected" dataset https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/cf4e7244-d19b-4b83-abae-47650fe202e8/download/datadictionary_violationscorrected.csv
8 Defines the fields in the "Number of Apartments in a Tenement House" dataset https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/14772cba-ef79-4b26-a0c7-96283be9afaa/download/datadictionary_numberofapartments_1912.csv
8 Record of how many apartments were inside a tenement house in each ward of the city of Pittsburgh in the year 2012 Please refer to the map linked in the resources for context regarding the wards listed in the data. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/007bfc59-8255-4cbf-95d1-eeaf47aea64c/download/numberofapartmentsintenementhouse_1912.csv
8 Defines the fields in the two datasets "Height of Tenement Houses by Story (Front and Rear)" https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/bc29b9a1-f17d-411c-948d-3e3aff600730/download/datadictionary_heightoftenementhouses_bystory_frontandrear_1912.csv
21 Map showing Pittsburgh's wards to give context to 1912 reports and the wards listed in them. Citation: Old & New Wards. Plate 43, G. M. Hopkins & Co., 1910, 20090323-hopkins-0045, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A20090323-hopkins-0045/viewer
8 Defines the fields in the "Summary of Inspections Conducted" dataset. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/25e6b529-6bec-41be-957c-3459c3e8c350/download/datadictionary_summaryofinspectionsconducted.csv
8 Record of how many tenement house was located in each ward of the city of Pittsburgh in the year 2012. Occupancy/vacancy is included as well as what material the buildings were constructed of. Please refer to the map linked in the resources for context regarding the wards listed in the data. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/978bd88d-3d23-47d3-8c73-9c23b56579fc/download/recordoftenementhousesinpittsburgh_1912.csv
47 Provides more context about the Division of Tenement House Inspection’s published work between 1907-1913 and understanding the data prepared for the WPRDC. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/4f9ebfc6-0242-4290-9569-0a041c9edff9/download/readmefile_divisionoftenementhouseinspection_datasets.txt
8 Record showing the height by story of tenement houses in each ward of the city of Pittsburgh in the year 2012. Note that this table is for the height of the "front" of a building; this phrasing is taken from the historical text and no description or definition for the "front" of the building is given. Please refer to the map linked in the resources for context regarding the wards listed in the data. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/c435bcc6-211f-4cae-992a-ebd540743b15/download/heightoftenementhouses_bystory_frontofbuilding_1912.csv
8 Defines the fields in the "Record of Tenement Houses 1912" dataset https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/c6f96314-a609-43e6-8de2-d4f9540ccfde/download/datadictionary_recordoftenementhouses_1912.csv
57 Images of all (1907/1913) annual reports by the Division of Tenement House Inspection that was published by the Department of Public Health and obtained through the University of Pittsburgh’s Archives & Special Collections. No report for 1908, but information from that year is included in the 1909 report Distortions in the file are from the microfilm itself and not the scanning. This .zip file contains .tif images of digitally scanned microfilm. Citation: Department of Public Health Annual Reports, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1871-1916, AIS.1974.28, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/60780976-5e51-43ee-89ea-8bfe90a180d0/download/images_divisionoftenementhouseinspection_1907-1913.zip
8 List of the number of violations corrected by the Division of Tenement House Inspections from 1907-1913. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/63c03e08-73cb-431a-88f5-607065be3bb1/download/violations_corrected.csv
8 Record showing the height by story of tenement houses in each ward of the city of Pittsburgh in the year 2012. Note that this table is for the height of the "rear" of a building; this phrasing is taken from the historical text and no description or definition for the "rear" of the building is given. Please refer to the map linked in the resources for context regarding the wards listed in the data. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/f6e60816-4e34-4b41-80d3-ec2dbc90d54f/download/heightoftenementhouses_bystory_rearofbuilding_1912.csv
57 Written portion of all (1907/1913) annual reports by the Division of Tenement House Inspection that was published by the Department of Public Health and obtained through the University of Pittsburgh’s Archives & Special Collections. No report for 1908, but information from that year is included in the 1909 report Distortions in the file are from the microfilm itself and not the scanning. This .zip file contains .txt files of the text transcribed from the digitally scanned microfilm. Citation: Department of Public Health Annual Reports, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1871-1916, AIS.1974.28, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/110acefc-35dc-4579-a3ba-fddc709ee589/download/writtensection_annualreports_1907-1913.zip
8 This dataset shows a summary of the work done by the Division of Tenement House Inspection, including number of houses inspected, violations found and corrected, and complaints investigated. Due to the distortion of the microfilm, data for the summary of inspections conducted in 1911 could not be recorded in this dataset. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/df18e46a-9071-4639-9a45-1a53ea12e85a/resource/c0e0e6cd-6698-4007-95dc-e68659788c08/download/summary_of_inspections_conducted.csv

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  • violations
  • archives
  • history
  • housing-units
  • housing
  • community-profiles
  • historic-pittsburgh

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  • Local Government

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