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This list excludes common lodging-houses.
Only 80 patients out of 419 were able to have a bed and bedroom
all to themselves. In the other households where only one
bed was available, 241 persons slept in the same bed with the
consumptives and were consequently closely exposed to infection.
This number refers to those families which only possessed one
bed. In addition to these, there were 265 persons who occupied
the same bedroom as a phthisical patient and in some instances
the same bed.
Forty-seven bedrooms had no fireplace, so that ventilation in
them was absent or impossible.
The ventilation was insufficient in 61 other bedrooms, making
a total of 108 bedrooms, or 25 per cent, of the whole number.
This defective ventilation and absence of ventilation favours
the spread of the disease. It is difficult sometimes to suggest
means by which it may be overcome—occasionally owners have
been induced to place gratings in the walls. The absence of
fireplaces bespeaks very bad housing—in some instances these