Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . and shacks begins quite often beforethe village is incorporated, while it is stillthe country,—only with township su-pervision which does not amount to muchas long as a man keeps to his own land andpays his taxes. When the straggling housesbecome incorporated into a town, properbuilding rules can be made and enforced,but often already the damage is done. CHAPTER II HOUSE AND ROOM OVERCROWDING House or room overcrowding is thecommon housing defect met with in thecountry—sometimes due to the ill-con-structed building, poverty, or though
Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . and shacks begins quite often beforethe village is incorporated, while it is stillthe country,—only with township su-pervision which does not amount to muchas long as a man keeps to his own land andpays his taxes. When the straggling housesbecome incorporated into a town, properbuilding rules can be made and enforced,but often already the damage is done. CHAPTER II HOUSE AND ROOM OVERCROWDING House or room overcrowding is thecommon housing defect met with in thecountry—sometimes due to the ill-con-structed building, poverty, or thoughtlesslandlord, but in many instances due to thecarelessness and shif tlessness of the peoplethemselves. The house in the rowmentioned in Chapter I is very often re-sponsible for a great deal of overcrowding;but not all rows are overcrowded. I haveseen instances where small families livedin such limited quarters under proper san-itary conditions, but this, I think, is the€;xception. The house in the row veryoften contains only four rooms, so it is 26. Fig. 3.—Seventeen People Once Lived in this Row ofThree Houses. House and Room Overcrowding 29 very evident that when more than three,or at the most four, people live in such ahouse, with only small windows front andback, there will be overcrowding and withit lack of fresh air and sunshine. As an illustration of this overcrowding,take the row shown in Fig. 3. Supposedto be three houses: at one time this build-ing contained seventeen people, and asthere are only four and one-half bed-rooms (if there can be such a thing as halfa room) in the whole row—one and one-half in each house—there was evidently avast amount of overcrowding. The gableends in this case have one small window:much better, however, than some others,which have no windows. Though the endhouses in such a row are almost as bad asthe middle one, they are still consideredby far the best in the row, as is shown bythe increased rental paid for them. Why are suc
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