. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . learn to appreciate the posses-sion of its own comfortable andpeaceful homes. Further, allthe Building Societys tenements have a total floor area of at least 80 square alen (31*52 square meters),whilst the majority of town taxes are levied in proportion to thesquare alen of area occupied, irrespective of the dwellings situation,height of apartments, or their value. It has been attempted torepair this injustice by the unfortunate and disastrous exemptionfrom taxation of all dwellings under 64 square alen (25*216 squaremeters). Some f
. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . learn to appreciate the posses-sion of its own comfortable andpeaceful homes. Further, allthe Building Societys tenements have a total floor area of at least 80 square alen (31*52 square meters),whilst the majority of town taxes are levied in proportion to thesquare alen of area occupied, irrespective of the dwellings situation,height of apartments, or their value. It has been attempted torepair this injustice by the unfortunate and disastrous exemptionfrom taxation of all dwellings under 64 square alen (25*216 squaremeters). Some few quite poor working men are amongst the tenants of theSociety, but as a rule these belong to the better working classes,there being also several clerks and small officials amongst them. WORKING MENS DWELLINGS. 153 The monthly payment of instalments and interest is, as a rule, mostpunctual, and arrears are quite insignificant. The houses of the Society. have altogether about 7,000 inmates; the mortality amongst themduring the last 8 years has been on an average 145 per 1,000, whilst 154 WORKING MENS DWELLINGS AND GARDENS IN THE PROVINCES. for the whole Metropolis it was 22*5 per 1,000. But it is not alonein a sanitary sense, but also in a moral and social one, that thesepeople may be said to be amongst the most fortunate members ofthe metropolitan population. F. Ulrik. WORKING MENS DWELLINGS AND GARDENS IN THE PROVINCES. WORKING Mens Dwellings. As early as 1850 medical statisticalinvestigations had awakened sanitarians and philanthropists to theimportance of healthy and comfortable homes for the poorer class. Afterthe cholera of 1853 had given rise to a desire for better dwellings,and, in Copenhagen, had given an impulse to many building enter-prises for the benefit of the working classes, working mens houseswere also, though later, erected in the provinces by both societiesand private individuals. Dr. Hornemann in Hygienic Communica
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