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The first house consists of a house fronting on the street, and having in its rear a building
originally occupied by a glass silverer. The second was built some twenty years ago especially for
use as a common lodging-house. The third was in great part built for the same purpose, at the same
time as the preceding. The fourth is a group of five old houses three storeys in height. The fifth is a
group of three old houses three and four storeys in height, converted into one. The sixth is a fourstorey
house. The seventh is a group of three old houses converted into one. The eighth is a fourstorey
house with basement, about ten years old, and built especially for a common lodging-house.
The ninth is a four-storey house. The tenth consists of two houses four storeys high, and having two
buildings at the rear.
In the first common lodging-house the front house is used for doubles and single women, and
the rear building for doubles only. In the second the two top floors are reserved for doubles, and the
rest of the house is used for single women. In the third common lodging-house one house accommodates
doubles and single men, another, doubles and single women, a third, doubles, and a fourth single
women. The fourth common lodging-house has the rooms for single women and doubles opening off
the same staircase, while the rooms for single men are separately approached from the yard. The
fifth has the rooms for single men and doubles approached by a different staircase, the rooms for the
single women being on the staircase leading to the doubles, with which are two single women's beds.
The sixth is wholly devoted to doubles, the seventh wholly to single women, the rooms of the different
houses being thrown together. The eighth is practically a " double " house, having only four single
women's beds ; these are situated in cubicles among those for the doubles. The ninth, accommodating
single men and doubles, has the single men in a large dormitory on the ground and first floors,
on the latter floor being two small rooms used for doubles, the rest of the doubles being accommodated
on the two floors above. Where more than one double bed is in the same room the beds are separated
by wooden partitions. The tenth contain doubles only, which are situated in cubicles on each floor.
There are iron bedsteads in each house, but wooden bedsteads still exist in the second, third, fourth
and ninth houses. The bedding consists of flock beds and mattresses stuffed with shavings or straw,
but in the tenth common lodging-house twenty beds are furnished with wire-wove mattresses.
Kitchens.— Separate kitchens for the two sexes are not provided in any of these houses. The
first house has the kitchen on the ground floor ; the second has two kitchens one on the ground floor
and one in the basement, both dark; the third common lodging-house has two kitchens on the ground
floor ; the fourth has two kitchens, one on the ground floor the other in the basement; the fifth, one on
the ground floor; the sixth, two on the ground floor; the seventh, two on the ground floor; the
eighth has a dark kitchen in the basement; the ninth has its kitchen on the ground floor; the
tenth has one kitchen on the ground floor of a building in the rear.
Water-closets.— The water-closets in each house are situated in the yard, and where there are
lodgers of both sexes separate water-closets are provided for each sex.
Washhouses.— In the first house six fixed basins with cold water laid on and one washing-trough
are provided beneath a roof in the yard and used by both sexes. In the second house the washhouse
is similar to the preceding and two washing-tubs are provided. In the third a room in the basement
supplies the washhouse and is used by both sexes; it contains six fixed basins and five washingtroughs.
In the fourth five basins with cold water laid on are situated beneath a roof in the yard and
used by both sexes. In the fifth a dark basement room is used as a washhouse, it has five fixed
basins with cold water laid on, and hot water can be drawn from a tap on Sunday; two washing-tubs
are provided. In the sixth the yard is subdivided to provide separate washhouses and water-closets
for the two sexes, five fixed basins with cold water being laid on to the former; hot water can also be
drawn from a tap; two washing-troughs are provided. In the seventh, five basins are situated beneath
a roof in the yard with cold water laid on, five washing-tubs are also provided. In the eighth the yard
is subdivided, and separate provision of washhouses and water-closets is made for the two sexes; the
men are provided with four fixed basins with hot and cold water, the women with three fixed basins with
cold water and two washing-troughs. In the ninth, two basement rooms opening into each other and
practically making one room constitute the washhouse for the two sexes. In this washhouse are
situated six fixed basins with cold water and two washing-troughs. In the tenth, three fixed basins
with cold water and a washing-trough are provided beneath a roof in the yard for the two sexes.
Strand.— Two houses in the Strand are occupied by women. Men are not received. The rents
charged are as follows—
Common lodging-house. Single women.
1 34 5d.
2 81 6d.