Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Rowntree, B. Seebohm (Benjamin Seebohm), 1871-1954.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    l rooms or more; and as it is safe to assume that the whole of the servant-keeping class are living in similar or larger houses, we see that 86per cent of the total population of York are living in houses containing four or more rooms, whilst only 0*7 per cent of the ‘jfo total population are living in single-roomed tenements. The contrast between the above conditions and the latter city 386,489 persons or 9*4 per cent of the total population were in 1891 living in one-roomed tenements.1 No less than 18 per cent of the London tenements consisted of one room only, but even this proportion is low in comparison with the 49’5 per cent of one-roomed tenements in Stockholm, the 44 per- cent in Berlin, and the 37 T per cent in Christiania.2 The following table shows the proportion of tene- ments and houses of various sizes in some other English towns :— those which obtain in London is very striking. In Percentage of Total Tenements and Houses 1 Room. 2 Rooms. 3 Rooms. 1 4 Rooms. Tenements and Houses with 5 Rooms and over. York 1-8 9 2 8-3 29 5 51-2 London 18 20 16 12 34 Leeds 1-3 17-5 21-7 25-5 34 Gateshead . 10-2 36-9 23-1 15-3 14-5 St. Helens . 0-9 8-7 7-1 42-7 40-6 Stockport . 1-0 11-8 3-6 50-4 33-2 Southampton 6-2 9-1 6-6 12-4 65-7 1 See Census Returns, 1891. 2 See Paper read before Manchester Statistical Society by Professor Flux, November 1899. It must be borne in mind that in the census returns of some continental cities, a living-room with a small kitchen attached is sometimes returned as a single-room tenement. M