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The cost of cubic space is thus progressively
increased for each person the greater the number of
rooms in which it is available.
Thus it is cheaper for two persons to live in
one room, say of 2000 cubic feet, than for the same
persons to live in two rooms of 1000 cubic feet each,
the weekly rental in one case would amount to 3/3,
in the other to 4/1, though the rental per room in
such a case would be for the one-roomed tenement
3/3, and for the two-roomed tenement 2/0½.
It is this fact, presumably, which causes the
larger rooms to be let off as single-roomed tenements,
thus creating the anomaly already referred to. It
must be remembered that these results relate to
averages which only show broadly the trend or
principle of the relations established. In actual
fact there are wide divergencies from this principle.
For instance, a mean of the minimum cubic space of
one class of one-roomed tenements in the different
streets in which they occur, yields only 787 cubic
feet per room, a diminutive class of rooms which
occupied separately must produce the most disastrous
results.
But a single room occupied by a family as a
tenement, no matter what its size, can rarely be a