East London . small workmens houses, contain-ing four or six rooms each, most of which are let to familiesby two rooms or by single rooms. But the demand still con-tinues ; by-streets are run across, narrow lanes usurp the smallbackyard or little slip of garden; when the whole availablespace is built over, what will happen next ? The crazy condi-tion of these jerry-built houses, after a few years, opens upanother and a different set of questions. The case of WestHam represents only on a more rapid scale what has beengoing on for many years over the whole of industrial Lon-don. And now we seem
East London . small workmens houses, contain-ing four or six rooms each, most of which are let to familiesby two rooms or by single rooms. But the demand still con-tinues ; by-streets are run across, narrow lanes usurp the smallbackyard or little slip of garden; when the whole availablespace is built over, what will happen next ? The crazy condi-tion of these jerry-built houses, after a few years, opens upanother and a different set of questions. The case of WestHam represents only on a more rapid scale what has beengoing on for many years over the whole of industrial Lon-don. And now we seem at last to have arrived at an endto the accommodation possible on the old method of smallhouses and narrow streets. The results of the overcrowding are, as might be expected,deplorable in the extreme. Among other evils, it kills theinfants; it dwarfs those who grow up among its evil influ-ences; it poisons the air; it deprives the house of comfort, ofcleanliness, of decency; it drives the man to drink; and it. East and West Ham.
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