. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . of the whole; the four-roomapartments, 33 per cent; five-room, 30 per cent; six rooms and over, 33per cent. Not at all a bad showing. A five-room flat with all of its space and laborsaving provisions will serve a family as well as did an old-style eight-roomhouse. When we study the heights of buildings we find nothing to complainof. Of the permits issued in 1910, 37 per cent were for buildings one storyhigh, two stories high, three stories high, four stories high,and over four stories, Comparing the type of building with that in vogue in 1870
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . of the whole; the four-roomapartments, 33 per cent; five-room, 30 per cent; six rooms and over, 33per cent. Not at all a bad showing. A five-room flat with all of its space and laborsaving provisions will serve a family as well as did an old-style eight-roomhouse. When we study the heights of buildings we find nothing to complainof. Of the permits issued in 1910, 37 per cent were for buildings one storyhigh, two stories high, three stories high, four stories high,and over four stories, Comparing the type of building with that in vogue in 1870 we find thegreatest change is in the reduction of the percentage of one story buildings FLAT AND COTTAGE 1117 from 73 to 37 per cent, and the increase of two-story buildings from 20 to46 per cent. No type of building is more unsatisfactory, more uncomfortable andmore expensive to maintain than isthe one-story cottage. In fact, much of thetrouble in housing at present is the result of one-story house building in 1870. ALLEY AllCV. riPSTTIppgRAN 5e:cond fLporepLAN Fig. 476.—A House for Each Family. (Philadelphia.) Two-story brick houses, 4 roomsand bath. Selling price, $1,750. Rent $13 a month. (National Housing Association Publica-tion No. 7.) 1118 HOUSING A study of the location of living apartments with reference to the streetis disquieting at first blush. In a study of about 2,500 insanitary living placesover 1,400 were found fronting on alleys, yards and courts rather than on Auey ALLty
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