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Examples of Over-crowding in Newly-built Houses.
The houses in Amberly Road, although all newly-built and
tolerably spacious, having eight good-sized rooms, two on each
floor—ventilation well provided for back and front, cleanliness,
good drainage, water supply, and closet in fair order, yet from
several families living in a house generally intended for one—
we find the worst evil of over-crowding—viz.: spreading of contagious
disease. Here are examples :—No. 33.—A clean house,
cases of typhoid have occurred—perhaps from sewer gas finding
its way through the waste pipe. No. 47. —Three cases of Scarlet
Fever, one death of late, and several cases of illness since it
first became inhabited—eighteen months' ago. No. 35.—This
is a double house, fair to look at outside, but a perfect pest-house
within. The closet is out of order from bad fittings at first.
Here have been cases of fever and other illnesses; now we find
four of Scarlet Fever. Population:—Kitchen; man, wife and
three children ; Parlor or ground floor; man, wife and four children,
living principally in the one room; man, wife and two
children in another; man and wife in another. First floor;
man, wife and three children in one room; woman and three
children in one large room; two men lodgers in another; two
females and three children have two rooms. Second floor ; a
man, wife and four children in two rooms; a man, wife and
child in two other rooms. Number of rooms, 15; number of
persons, 40. Cubic space for each individual varies from 160
to 300 cubic feet. No. 22.—In the lower rooms; kitchen—
front, man, wife and two children; back, a woman and
child; the death from Scarlet Fever is in the back room ; no
other illness at present in this house, which is clean throughout.
Here is another instance:—No. 12, Desboro' Street, eighteen
persons in six small rooms; perfectly clean; two cases of Scarlet
Fever occurred in this house. Five holdings or distinct lodgers.
In parlor floor; man, wife and five children; occupy the two
rooms; first floor; man, wife and three children in one room;
man, wife and child in the back room ; second floor; two sets of
lodgers, but four persons only in all.
A List of Pamphlets and Books received:—
Fourth Report of the Industrial Employment Association.
Report of Medical Ofliccrs of Health Association.
Francis Fuller.— National Security and National Prosperity dependent upon a
diminution of Drunkenness, Pauperism, and Crime.
Poor Law and Charity—Letter of T. B. Baker, Esq.
The Contagious Diseases Act, (Women) from a Sanitary point of view, by
C. B. Taylor, M.D., F.R.C.S.E.
The Original; containing Essays on the Art of Dining, Travelling, and attaining
High Health; on Agriculture, Education, Economy, Governments, Liberty
Prions, Discipline and Reform; on Beggars and Poor Laws—and on many othe,
subjects of interest and importance, by the late Thomas Walker, M.A., one of
the Magistrates of the Metropolis.