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cubic feet,
255
Tilbury Place
2 men, 2 women, and 2
children.
Living and sleeping,
2,000 cubic feet.
Two rooms, ground and
first floors.
The husband is a sawyer in regular work. Girl, 22 years, earns 2s. per
day, and girl, 20 years, earns 8s. per week. The light and ventilation
were bad and rooms very dirty and untidy at the time of visit.
588
Vauban Street
2 adults, boys 8 and 4 years,
and girls 5 and 3 years.
Living and sleeping,
1,600 cubic feet.
Front room, first floor,
1,012 cubic feet.
The husband is at present oat of work, but expects to get work soon.
The wife earns 5s. to 6s. per week at ironing. They are looking for
another place.
515
Do.
Man, wife, girl 11 years,
and boy 9 months.
Sleeping,
1,050 cubic feet.
Back room, first floor,
535 cubic feet.
From this report it is evident that all the bedrooms are overcrowded
to a considerable extent, and as they are very small and the ventilation
somewhat defective the conditions cannot be considered as
sanitary. It is also an unsatisfactory arrangement to have members
of the family sleeping in these small living rooms. If they are
children it means that they are kept out of bed for several hours
after they ought to be there, and, whether children or adults, it
cannot be considered healthy to occupy during the night a small
room which has been used for living in during the daytime, for the
atmosphere by bedtime is hot and polluted by the breath of the
occupants, artificial lights, cooking, &c. Further, we have no
guarantee that the re-arrangement here described is carried out. If
an inspector visits at night he is shown a bed in the living room, but
I have very little doubt that as soon as the disturbance caused by
his visits and notices has ceased that the occupants return to their
original rooms. The houses in Edmund Place have only one small
bedroom and a small living room and are really not fit for couples
with large families, for the bedroom should not be occupied for
sleeping by more than two adults or four small children under 10
years of age. It is very difficult to know what to do with such
cases as these, but it seems to me that as a Sanitary Authority we
must take steps to get the overcrowding abated.
Man, wife, boy 5 years, and
girl 2 years.
213
Edmund Place
Sleeping,
900 cubic feet.
Room, first floor,
687 cubic feet.
382
Do.
Widow, girls 17 and 12
years, and boy 7 ½ years.
Sleeping,
1,050 cubic feet.
Room, first floor,
668 cubic feet.
Room, first floor,
657 cubic feet.
243
Man, wife, girls 7 years
and 10 months.
Do.
Sleeping,
900 cubic feet.
Man, wife, boy 2¾ years,
and girl 1 year.
221
Do.
Sleeping,
900 cubic feet.
Room, first floor,
679 cubic feet.
Man, wife, boys 10½ and 7
years.
351
Crosby Row
Living and sleeping,
1,400 cubic feet.
Back room, first floor,
1,049 cubic feet.
The husband is a waterside labourer in fairly regular work, and the
wife has obtained a situation since the notice was served as an office
cleaner at 10s. 6d. per week. The room was fairly clean and the
light and ventilation fair. The rent is 3s. 6d. per week. They
purpose getting an extra room.