hours, so that it never grows cold; while the floor
space underneath the bed is likewise let on the
three-relay system. Health 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 laborer comes
in. At seven in the morninsf 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 10 houses 51 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 6
houses and 22 rooms were 84 people again, 6, 7, 8,
and 9 being the number living in one room, in several
instances. In one house with 8 rooms are 45 people
one room containing 9 persons, one 8, two 7, and
another 6.

[{A TWO-RELAY SYSTEM LODGING.}]

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