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In the table contained upon pages 6 to 57, Section II., the tenements are classified as to outside sanitary condition, and as to facilities for light and air, ventilation, and cleanliness, separately. As pointed out on page 65, "It follows therefore that the same tenement may appear under each head. In fact, in many cases, a tenement having poor or bad outside sanitary conditions is also deficient in light and air, ventilation, and cleanliness." While this is true, it is also true that a tenement may be bad as to one of the points named, but fair or even good as to the others. In preparing the table now presented, only those tenements have been included which were bad as to outside sanitary conditions or bad as to each of the points included under inside sanitary conditions; or, in other words, bad as to light and air, ventilation, and cleanliness. That is to say, this table shows the number of families living in tenements which were entirely bad as to outside or inside sanitary conditions or both.

Reference to the final line of the recapitulation shows that 1,707 families resided in tenements where the outside sanitary conditions were bad; this number of families being but 2.38 per cent of the total number of families residing in rented tenements in the city. On the other hand, only 645 families were found in tenements where all the inside sanitary points considered were bad, and this number of families constitutes but 0.90 per cent of the entire number of families in rented tenements, or a proportion rather less than one family in each hundred. In tenements where both outside and inside conditions were bad, 522 families were found.

It may be safely assumed that whenever a tenement was designated as entirely bad as to its inside condition, that is, to be more explicit, was bad as to facilities for light and air, ventilation, and cleanliness, such a tenement was unfit for human habitation. The existence of such tenements forms primarily an indictment against the landlord who is responsible for their condition. They should either be abandoned or improved. In some cases such improvement as would render them suitable for occupancy can easily be made; in other cases, no doubt, they should be permanently abandoned, but the figures presented in the table forcibly bring out the point already made as to the limited number of such tenements.

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forms of the total number of families residing in rented tenements in the city has already been shown. In the following wards will be found a percentage higher than the percentage for the city, the figures in each case being annexed: Ward 5, 2.78; ward 6, 2.50; ward 7, 9.27; ward 10, 1.88; ward 12, 2.28; ward 13, 3.13; ward 25, 1.30. The high percentages are mainly confined to the wards included in the concentrated district. In no single ward is more than a comparatively limited number of families involved, except in wards 5, 6, 7, 12, and 13; the largest number, 193, being found in ward 7.

The existence of defective outside sanitary conditions is, upon the whole, an indictment against the city; for while some of the defects are due to unclean or poorly kept private ways and alleys, the responsibility of the city for the existence of such

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defects can hardly be avoided. Reference to the characterization of specific cases reported by wards upon pages 80 to 115, Section II., makes it clear that the chief difficulty upon the outside of the tenements is due to improper drainage, poor paving, or the absence of paving, insufficient cleansing of alleys and courts, and the use of vacant lots as dumping grounds for rubbish and filth. Of course, it is entirely possible to prevent each of these things by proper care, and the limited number of tenements subjected to outside conditions which are absolutely bad makes it evident that it would be by no means a difficult task to accomplish permanent improvement in this direction.

For the purpose of specifically locating the tenements classed as absolutely bad upon the inside, an evil which rests primarily upon the landlord, the following table by streets is presented:

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