| SINGLE | FAMILIES | TOTAL | PERCENT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenement | 30 | 133 | 163 | 35 |
| Rooming and Boarding | 223 | 9 | 232 | 50 |
| One Family House | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2.5 |
| Camp | 36 | 0 | 36 | 7.5 |
| Mission | 23 | 0 | 23 | 5 |
| 318 | 147 | 465 | 100 |
Of the men without families here, only twenty-two out of more than three hundred had individual bed rooms. Twenty-five percent lived four in a room, and twenty-five percent lived in rooms used by more than four people. Again only thirty-seven percent slept in separate beds, fifty percent slept two in a bed, and thirteen percent sleep three or more in a bed.
TABLE NUMBER III
NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN BED ROOM
The conditions in these rooming houses often beggar description. Sleeping quarters are provided not only in bedrooms, but also in attics, basements, dining rooms and kitchens. In many instances, houses in which these rooms are located are dilapidated dwellings with the paper torn off, the plaster sagging from the naked lath, the windows broken, the ceiling low and damp, and the whole room dark, stuffy and unsanitary. In one or two instances, these rooms, with more than six people sleeping in them at one time, have practically no openings for either light or air.
A Typical Boarding House on Lower Wylie Avenue.
In the more crowded sections, beds are rented on a double shift basis. Men who work at night sleep during the day in the beds vacated by day workers. There is no space in these rooms, except for beds and as many of them are crowded in as can be possibly accommodated.
There is rarely a place in these rooms for even suitcases or trunks. Under such circumstances the rooms can be kept clean with difficulty, and there is apparently no disposition to wrestle with the dirt and litter. Very few of these sleeping rooms have more than two windows each, and many have only one window. Only a few are provided with bath rooms, while a great number have the water and toilets in the yards or other places outside the house. Many of these roomers complain that often they are not given any soap, and are never given more than one towel a week.