Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . A lodging house in a basement. There are twenty-three rooms, each a mere stall, with noventilation. The only light is Cellar umk-r a shack. Typical of the squalid living conditions prevalent in the smaller cities of California. HO COMMISSION OP ]MM1GKAT1()N AND HOUSING. of the poorer classes, avIio are careless as ti) their j^eiieral personal habitsand cleanliness, they present an ever constant dan^er to the health ofthe entire city. The preliminary survey had discl
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . A lodging house in a basement. There are twenty-three rooms, each a mere stall, with noventilation. The only light is Cellar umk-r a shack. Typical of the squalid living conditions prevalent in the smaller cities of California. HO COMMISSION OP ]MM1GKAT1()N AND HOUSING. of the poorer classes, avIio are careless as ti) their j^eiieral personal habitsand cleanliness, they present an ever constant dan^er to the health ofthe entire city. The preliminary survey had disclosed the fact that thecity maintains no regular inspection of these lodgings; consequently thisdetailed survey was undertaken to gather definite evidence of the needof inspection. These detailed inspections disclosed such startling conditions that thenewspapers in San Francisco gave wide publicity to the report, consid-ering the news to be of vital import to the general pul)lic. The woi-stvioUition discovered, which may not be a technical violation of the exist-ing hotel and lodging house act, but which presents a real menace, wasthe existence of hundreds of so-called stalls. A large room with aceiling of from twelve to fourteen feet in he
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