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When, in addition to these, the tenement is overcrowded, the
conditions for promoting the spread of the disease are as pernicious
as they possibly can be.
Eighty-eight tenements were on the list of houses-let-inlodgings;
sixty-one tenements were in the so-called model
buildings, which, with their common landings and their many
points of contact between the families who occupy them, are only
too well adapted for the spread of phthisis.
Homework was carried on in ten tenements.
Of the houses occupied by the patients, 4 were milkshops, 2
were restaurants, 5 were public houses, and 4 others were used
for the sale or preparation of food products. It is very unfortunate
and most undesirable that these consumptive patients
should have to do with the handling or manufacture of articles
for human consumption. There is not, however, at present, any
practical method of preventing or otherwise satisfactorily dealing
with their employment in such occupations.
A sanitary survey was made of every tenement and the nuisances
found made the subject of subsequent notice.
The following defects were ascertained:—Insufficient headroom,
90; insufficient lighting, 43; dirty rooms, 17; broken or
dilapidated walls or roofs, 11; insufficient ventilation, 10;
verminous rooms, 3; basement room illegally occupied, 1;
defective and dirty wash-houses, 4; defective water closets, 4;
and a sink waste untrapped in one tenement.
The Patient's Bedroom—The number of beds in the patient's
bedroom, the number of persons occupying the patient's bodroom
and the number of families affected are given in the attached
table.