Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . l consideredby far the best in the row, as is shown bythe increased rental paid for them. Why are such houses, insanitary they 30 Rural Housing surely are, built in our towns and villages?Simply because the owner hopes to makeID or 12 per cent on his investment; andmany an opulent family lives on the pro-ceeds of a rotten row that is a disgraceto modern sanitary knowledge. Thesepeople, the proprietors, I mean—gener-ally the best people in their respectivecommunities,—fail to realize that insan-itary dwellings built in sunless rows, ev
Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . l consideredby far the best in the row, as is shown bythe increased rental paid for them. Why are such houses, insanitary they 30 Rural Housing surely are, built in our towns and villages?Simply because the owner hopes to makeID or 12 per cent on his investment; andmany an opulent family lives on the pro-ceeds of a rotten row that is a disgraceto modern sanitary knowledge. Thesepeople, the proprietors, I mean—gener-ally the best people in their respectivecommunities,—fail to realize that insan-itary dwellings built in sunless rows, evenon another street, are a menace to theirown health. In the photograph (Fig. 4) is shown anexample of gross overcrowding in a certainold-fashioned country town. Each wingof this building is called a home andrented to different families, although con-sisting of but one room; one of these isoccupied by a mother and two sons—oneeighteen years old: all three live and eatin this single room, and all three sleep inthe one bed (Fig. 5). The other house is. c n n Q (^ , 1 w y, m O w C o£: KO H O O o1^
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