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4. The average cubical space per person
provided in the above twelve houses is
522.1 feet by actual measurement,
whereas the space required by your
own bye-laws is only 350 cubic feet per
head, and was formerly 300 only,
showing an excess of breathing space
in Montague Court of 172 cubic feet
per person.
5. The average number of occupants per
room, estimating two children under 12
years of age as one adult, was 2.03 in
the daytime, but probably a little more
at night. These figures must also be
of varying quantity.
6. Not a single case of infectious disease
had been notified from Montague Court
since the end of 1896, and up to
November, 1898, only two deaths from
all causes: one. an infant, from whooping
cough, and the other, a woman, 44
years of age, from acute bronchitis.