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13 [1898
First, as regards sinqle.roomed tenements. It is stated that—
4,559 are occupied by 1 person.
4,240 „ 2 persons.
2,137 3 „
1,194 „ 4 „
497 „ ... ... 5 „
159 „ 6 „
51 „ 7 „
10 „ 8 „
4 „ 9 „
4 „ 10 „
1 „ 11 „
A single.roomed tenement should allow not less than 400 cubic feet
air space for each occupier, irrespective of furniture, because it is
at once the living, cooking and sleeping.room, hence its air becomes
quickly polluted, and is not capable of supplying the occupiers with
the amount of oxygen requisite for their well.being; wherefore it is
most inadvisable that more than two persons should occupy such a room.
If this be so, it then appears that at least 4,055 tenements, containing
15,300 persons, are over.crowded, or, in other words, that their occupants
live under conditions that are dangerous to their health.
Two.roomed Tenements.—The average number of persons living in
two.roomed tenements is, as we have seen, 3.6 per tenement. In these
rooms it is customary for the people for the greater part to use one
room solely for living in during the day and the second room for
sleeping in at night. Hence this overcrowding may be said to
commence when they are occupied by more than three persons, so
that they will be found to be in almost as bad a state as the single
room tenements. Altogether there are 60,639 persons residing in such
dwellings, of whom 20,455 live in rooms that are not occupied by more
than three persons, thus leaving 40,184 who are living under conditions
that are unsatisfactory.
Three.roomed Tenements.—The average number of persons in each
tenement is 4.2. In these rooms it is also the rule to give up one
room for living in, so that overcrowding may be reckoned not to have