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officers are not at all unused to finding such cases as the following: in
one room having a cubic capacity of 1000 feet, three adult females in the
bed, and two adult females under the bed; and in one room of 1650 cubic
feet, one adult male and two children in the bed, and two adult females
under the bed.
Here is a typical example of a room on the more respectable two-relay
system. It is occupied in the daytime by a young woman employed all
night in a hotel. At seven o'clock in the evening she vacates the room,
and a bricklayer's labourer comes in. At seven in the morning he
vacates, and goes to his work, at which time she returns from hers.
The Rev. W. N. Davies, rector of Spitalfields, took a census of some of
the alleys in his parish. He says:-
In one alley there are ten houses--fifty-one rooms, nearly all about 8
feet by 9 feet--and 254 people. In six instances only do 2 people
occupy one room; and in others the number varied from 3 to 9. In
another court with six houses and twenty-two rooms were 84
people--again 6, 7, 8, and 9 being the number living in one room, in
several instances. In one house with eight rooms are 45 people--one
room containing 9 persons, one 8, two 7, and another 6.
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