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homework. I am all out to see my children get on in
this world, but whilst I am confincd in this room it means
that things will not go along as smooth as if I had 3 rooms.
My work is regular I being a Police Officer and if you can
help me in any way of obtaining rooms I would be extremely
obliged to you."
Here are two examples which illustrate the breaking up of
corporate family life: —
1.—A family consisted of the parents, boys 21 years, 18
years, and a girl 15 years. They occupied one back
room of 723 cubic feet capacity. It was much overcrowded.
There was one double bed. The father was in
permanent employment and had been in the same situation
for 29 years. All the family took their meals here
together, but separated at night. The girl went to
sleep with her sister-in-law in Hackney. One boy slept
at Rowton House. The eldest boy slept at a fruiterer's
in Hoxton. When the boys fell out of work they slept
on the floor in the tenement occupied by their parents.
2.—A family was ejected from a house where they occupied
3 rooms because, so it was alleged, the landlord wanted
the tenement for his own son. The family consisted
of the parents, 1 adult boy, 2 adult girls, one child of
school age, and one child 3 years old. After ejection the
family took their meals "where they could." The
parents and youngest child slept at night in a room
occupied during the day by an old lady who went elsewhere
to sleep a sort of Box and Cox arrangement.
One girl slept in another room at the top of the same
house. The two boys slept elsewhere at two distinct and
separate addresses.
There is nowhere in Finsbury to which people without a
habitation can turn so as to get reasonable and comfortable
accommodation at short notice for a moderate rent.