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and we thus have the anomaly produced of each
inmate in a room paying more, the more that room
is shared by others. This is especially the case with
1 and 2 roomed tenements.
In these two classes of tenements the more persons
there are to a room the more each of them has
to pay.
It is satisfactory, on the other hand, to notice
that the mean cubic area of one-roomed tenements
is greater by 500 cubic feet than that of two-roomed
tenements, and that two-roomed tenements have a
greater mean capacity per room than tenements of
three rooms. Density of population in cubic area in
tenements of less than four rooms, is greatest in
two-roomed tenements, and least in tenements of
one room.
The mean cubic area per head is as follows:—
For tenements of 1 room 916 ft.
Do. do. 2 rooms 689 „
Do. do. 3 rooms 745 „
And the mean rate of rental per head for each 1000
cubic feet in
Tenements of 1 room 1/7½ a week.
Do. do. 2 rooms 2/0½ „
Do. do. 3 rooms 2/4½ „