Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1905 page 33

Bermondsey 1905

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1905

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Address.	Occupanis of overcrowded part of house.	Space Required.	Rooms occupied and cubic feet space.	Deficiency.	State of Premises and Family.
Paradise Street	2 adults and 4 children, girls (3 and 5), boys (4, and 11 months)	Sleeping, 1200 cubic feet	Ground floor, front room and scullery, 1072 cubic feet	Cubic feet 128	The husband is a casual labourer earning a precarious living. The rent for the house is 9s. per week, and they let off two rooms for 5s. per week. The light and ventilation are very indifferent, and the bedclothes scanty and dirty. They are evidently very poor.
Parkers Buildings	Woman, boys (14 and 11), and girl (16)	Living and sleeping, 1600 cubic feet	Front room, first floor, 1169 cubic feet	431	The room is clean and tidy. The ventilation is good, and the light proceeds from two windows, one at the side and one at the end. The occupier informs me she is a brush drawer by trade but has had no work for nearly two years. She earns from 4s. to 5s. per week at washing. Her daughter earns on an average 7s. per week at a tin manufactory in Riley Street, and the boy earns about 2s. 6d. to 3s. per week selling muffins on Sunday. The rent is 4s. per week. She says she cannot afford any more room at present, but as soon as her son obtains some better employment, which is expected every day, she is prepared to take another small room on the same landing.
West Lane	Man, wife, boys (12½ and 3 years)	Living and sleeping, 1400 cubic feet	Front room, second floor, 914 cubic feet	486	The husband is a waterside labourer at present out of work, but expects to have a fortnight's work at Christmas for the Post Office. For the last few weeks he has earned 10s. per week. His wife earns up to lis. per week at Southwell's. The room is fairly clean, but the bedclothes are scanty and dirty, and the light and ventilation bad. The rent is 2s. 6d. per week, and this is regularly paid.
Snowsfields	Man, wife, boy (9), girl (4 and 7 months)	Living and sleeping, 1400 cubic feet	Front room, first floor, 1173 cubic feet	227	The husband has been a casual carman and labourer since he left the Field Artillery in 1898. He has not done any work for a fortnight. The wife earns from 7s. to 10s. per week at jam factories. The rent is 7s. per week. The light and ventilation are fair. They are trying to find another place, and in my opinion they can obtain much better accommodation in other parts of the Borough for the same rent.
Do.	Man, wife, girls (4 and 3 weeks)	Living and sleeping, 1200 cubic feet	Back room, first floor, 954 cubic feet	246	The husband, a leather dresser, has been doing casual work for the past five years. He is out of work at present. The wife makes a little money by minding her sister's children while the latter is at work. The light and ventilation are fair. The rent is 6s. per week. Much better accommodation could, in my opinion, be obtained for the same money. This is the class of house which should be put on the register of houses let in lodgings, and I would suggest that it be measured up with a view to placing it on the register as soon as it becomes re-occupied.