THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND Entered according to Act of Congress, A. D., 1899, by A. N. BELL, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. THE SANITARIAN. JANUARY, 1899. NUMBER 350. DWELLING ACCOMMODATION IN LARGE CITIES.* THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. BY T. DE COURCY MEADE, M. I. C. E. The difficulties of providing sufficient suitable accommodation at reasonable cost for persons of the working class displaced from unsanitary areas, or from areas cleared for street improvements and railway works, are in most instances very great, and are generally enhanced by the tendency to overcrowd, which in many cases unduly increases the number of persons to be provided for upon areas already too limited. These difficulties have been met in Manchester by the erection on the cleared site of (a) blocks of five-storied tenements, approached by a common stairs and balconies; (b) blocks of tenements of two and three stories, with separate entrance and stairs to each set of tenements; (c) terrace cottages of five rooms each; (d) a model lodging-house. By the kindness of the chairman of the Sanitary Committee of the Manchester Corporation, Alderman Walton Smith. J. P., drawings of all these buildings were lent for the inspection of visitors to the congress. The Manchester Corporation are also erecting (e) cottage dwellings in the outskirts of the city, about two and a half miles from the cleared areas, where land is less costly. These cottages vary somewhat in character, and contain from five to seven rooms each. The buildings class (a) have been occupied about three years, and are let at rents which yield. a moderate return upon the cost of erection. The two blocks (a) of five-storied buildings cost about £87,000 exclusive of *Abstract of papers read at the Seventeenth Annual Congress of the Sanitary Institute, Birmingham, September 27-30, 1898.-From The Surveyor. |