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and is said to give his wife about Is. 6d. a day. The
rent of the room seems to be 2s. per week, and the
cubic capacity is 708 cubic feet.
The sanitary condition of the premises is satisfactory,
and although the room is question is overcrowded
to some slight extent, the difficulty is what
to do with people living in such poor and wretched
conditions.
P., M - S
This family occupy the entire first floor, consisting
of four rooms. These rooms are occupied by
the man, his wife, and six children, the eldest of
whom remaining at home is 12. years. A son 18
years of age is said to live at H G , whilst a
girl of 17, is said to live at P . The last two I
am given to understand being children of a previous
marriage. The father here would appear to be in
better circumstances, consequently the features of
poverty present in the other cases do not exist in
this.
As regards overcrowding, the capacity of the
rooms occupied by this family are as follows :—
First floor front 1,420 cubic feet.
First floor back 770 ,,
First floor back addition.. 546 ,,
First floor off 473 ,,
In the aggregate these people have a cubic capacity
of 3,209 cubic feet, and on that no legal overcrowding
occurs, although some re-arrangement of