Excerpt from Report on the Housing of the Poor, 1908 At the present date the Council has blocks of tenement dwellings and sets of cottages occupied. The dwellings now in occupation consist of tenements, containing rooms. In addition the Parker Street Lodging ihouse provides 324 beds. The total number accommodated to date is There are also 17 shops, 68 workshops, 12 stables, and 20 sheds. The gross weekly rental on 31st March, 1898, was nearly 400, and the average urent per week per room was 2s. 6 d. The following is a list of the dwellings now in Occupation, with details of the income hind expenditure for the year ending March, '1898. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.