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SANITARY POWERS OF THE COMMISSION. 29
you. I can therefore only venture at present to
offer you general suggestions on the subject.
You will find that the houses in which your
interference is required, fall into three cases, characterised
as follows:—(1) Where the house is let in
several independent holdings (often as many holdings
as rooms) each occupied by a single family and
no more, and paid for at a rent not exceeding 3s. 6d.
per week;—(2) Where the house is thus let in
several independent holdings, and where the renter
of each or any portion, admits other persons to share
his holding with him, on their payment to him of a
sub-rent per week or per night, so that a room comes
to be occupied by more than one family at a time;—
(3) Where the entire house, or all such part as is let
in lodgings is under the direct arrangement of a
single resident proprietor or keeper, where the
lodgings are let at per night, and where many
persons not belonging to one single family are lodged
together in some single room, or in various single
rooms of the house.
Of the first arrangement, where a single room is
the residence of a single family, you have innumerable
illustrations in the City; as, for instance, in the
large houses of Windsor Street (to which I have
recently drawn your attention) where in one house
there are sixteen such holdings:—of the second
arrangement—the most abominable and brutalising
which can be conceived, you have sufficient illustrations
in Plumtree Court:—of the third,