Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . A filthy shed shared by a man and a horse. The mans bunkis almost <lirectly over the horse and the maniu-c A 6 \ ?• foot shed built of tin and wood iiatchwork. Xo ventilation. A Mexican is asleep in the bunk. S4 COMMISSION OK IM .M IGUATlOX AND HOUSING. The chief evil diseh)s<(l. mikI wliiih seems to be pcfiiliar to Sacra-mento, is the common use of ecUars for sleeping, and ireneral house-keeping purposes. The sections of the city where had housing pre-\ails are low
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . A filthy shed shared by a man and a horse. The mans bunkis almost <lirectly over the horse and the maniu-c A 6 \ ?• foot shed built of tin and wood iiatchwork. Xo ventilation. A Mexican is asleep in the bunk. S4 COMMISSION OK IM .M IGUATlOX AND HOUSING. The chief evil diseh)s<(l. mikI wliiih seems to be pcfiiliar to Sacra-mento, is the common use of ecUars for sleeping, and ireneral house-keeping purposes. The sections of the city where had housing pre-\ails are low and poorly drained, and consequently the cellars in thedry season are damp, and in the winter season they are actually wetand the walls dripping. Some instances were discovered where fiveor persons, usually innnigrant lodgers. slei)t in such cellars, with(iirt Hoors and walls, and with not more than or l.:i()() ciiliic feet(if air space. , The usual o^•e^el•owding or congestion was found to he as prevalentas in San Kraneiseo. Likewise sc(»res of inside rooms were discovered,and insanitary conditions and general uneleanliness were found morefrecpiently than in San Franeiseu. The old and carelessly eonstruete
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