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rooms; d. No. of adults; e. No. of children ;
f No. of holdings or families; g. total No. of
persons; h. cubic space of floor; i. of rooms;
j. of whole house; k. to each person; I. No. of
doors, windows and chimneys communicating with
entrance air; m. defect of water supply; n. of
closet accommodation; o. of cleanliness in house,
yard and wash-house; p. No. of sanitary orders
issued, together with remarks consisting of notices
of diseases recorded in the returns of the Medical
Officers of the Parish—of zymotic deaths, from
returns of the Registrar General, or information
obtained from any other source likely to be useful.
In studying these statistical data, and other facts
illustrating the life of the people living in densely
populated streets and districts, a great sanitary
lesson may be learned. In the Parish of Paddington
over-crowding in its worse forms cannot be said
to exist; but there is an over-concentration of
building, which will some day be considered a
disgrace to our civilization; and blame attaches
somewhere even now in allowing it to increase.
It may be safely predicted that besides a high
infantile death-rate, a concomitant deterioration of
race will result. Children living with their parents
in a single room, or in a couple of rooms, in a house
occupied by two or more families, but originally
built for one, are subject to conditions and surroundings
favorable to disease; and a high mortality