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Ninety-four tenements were on the list of houses-let-in-lodgings
; 47 tenements were in the so-called model buildings, which,
with their common landings and their many points of contact
between the families who occupy them, are only too well adapted
for the spread of phthisis.
Homework was carried on in twelve tenements.
Of the houses occupied by the patients, 3 were milkshops, 4
were restaurants, 4 were public-houses, and 5 others were used
for the sale or preparation of food products. It is very unfortunate
and most undesirable that these consumptive patients
should have to do with the handling or manufacture of articles for
human consumption. There is not, however, at present, any
practical method of preventing or otherwise satisfactorily dealing
with their employment in such occupations.
A sanitary survey was made of every tenement, and the nuisances
found were made the subject of subsequent notice and amendment.
The following defects were ascertained:—Insufficient head
room, 62; dark kitchens, 37; dirty rooms, 26; damp rooms, 8;
broken or dilapidated walls or roofs, 9; insufficient ventilation, 8,
and verminous rooms, 8 tenements.