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therefore, not large enough for two adults and one child. In
Goring Street a man was found living with a widow and her
two children in an extremely small room, containing only 562
cubic feet of air. In a small room, having a cubical capacity
of 604 feet, were discovered the father, mother, two girls of 12
and 11 years, and also two young children, so that there was
only 100 cubic feet of air for each. In No. 16, Duncan Street,
there were three families, consisting of eighteen persons, living
and sleeping in four small rooms, the largest room containing
only 1014 and the smallest 757 cubic feet of air. At 15,
Duncan Square, in four rooms—the largest of which had a
cubical capacity of 1020 feet, and the smallest 763 feet—there
were four families, one of which, consisting of the mother, a
son of 21 years, a daughter of 16, and two younger children,
lived in a single room. In No. 10, Duncan Square, the father,
mother, and six children under 12, inhabited one small room
containing 868 cubic feet of air. At No. 11, Sheep Lane, the
mother and father slept in one room, and a son of 20 years old,
a daughter of 18, another of 16, and a lad of 14, slept in another
small room. In Farm Place, Cottage Lane, there were several
instances of families residing in rooms with but little more than
100 cubic feet of air for each person. In Shacklewell Row, the
father, a son of 21, another of 19, and a grown-up daughter,
lived and slept in a room, the cubic contents of which was only
904 feet. In a room having a capaoity of 766 feet, situated in
Taylor's Buildings, a man and his wife, two children under 10,
and a woman who was not related to either, were found living
and sleeping. In a house in Warburton Road, the father,
mother, a son of 19, and a daughter of 16, lived and slept in a
room holding only 990 feet of air. All these show the necessity
for the strict supervision exercised in this district upon the
dwellings of the poor, and for regular house-to-house inspection,