East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . Italians, for whom tenements are erected onLubec Street in East Boston, are given four rooms and abath for about $15 a month and seem to be well providedfor in eight and sixteen family houses, with floor planssimilar to that illustrated (Fig. 16). This plan providesprimarily a place for eating and sleeping and in manycases the parlor is used for a sleeping room and thekitchen becomes the living room. Little space is requiredin the house for pleasure purposes by the Italians, as theyhave by long ancestral customs become adapted to livingin limite
East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . Italians, for whom tenements are erected onLubec Street in East Boston, are given four rooms and abath for about $15 a month and seem to be well providedfor in eight and sixteen family houses, with floor planssimilar to that illustrated (Fig. 16). This plan providesprimarily a place for eating and sleeping and in manycases the parlor is used for a sleeping room and thekitchen becomes the living room. Little space is requiredin the house for pleasure purposes by the Italians, as theyhave by long ancestral customs become adapted to livingin limited quarters and to depending upon public placesfor their pleasure and recreations. Such accommodationswill not satisfy all classes of low rent payers, however, and 50 City Planning Board. more extensive quarters such as those provided in thewooden three-deckers are demanded also. The character of buildings suitable for housing in thedifferent sections of East Boston must be adapted to thesize and shape of lots available and may be greatly varied. FIG. 16.—PLAN OF 16-FAMILY TENEMENT HOUSE ON LUBEC STREET IN EAST BOSTON. Scale 20 feet to 1 inch. to meet the requirements of the various occupants, as sug-gested above, under the heading of Local Streets (page13), but the size of buildings should be definitely limitedto such widths that all rooms shall have windows openingon ample spaces, and for a tenement house the width ofbuilding is necessarily not very great. Development of East Boston. 51 9.—EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND HEALTHCONDITIONS. Schools, Libraries, Churches and Charities, Moraland Health Conditions, Hospitals, Institutions,Comfort Stations. The public schools and libraries of East Boston do notappear to differ materially from those of other parts ofthe city. About two-thirds of the children under fifteenyears of age attend public schools and a large percentageof the others are in private schools, mostly educational standards of the people are very good,and
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