'Ticketed houses' of Glasgow : with an interrogation of the facts for guidance towards the amelioration of the lives of their occupants / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
[1888]
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Credit: 'Ticketed houses' of Glasgow : with an interrogation of the facts for guidance towards the amelioration of the lives of their occupants / by James B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    small houses which demand the greatest architectural care and skill to make them physically wholesome, are evolved from struc- tures designed for occupation under totally different conditions. I need scarcely point to the Saltmarket houses as illustrations of the application of foresight and thought to adapt structure to mode of occupation. These aim a t the highest standard. The small houses which are not ticketed were either designed as such, or belong to the best class of made-down houses, where a necessary process has been intelligently and conscientiously carried out before occupation, and this is all that is wanted. II. So much for defective surroundings and accessories: leb us now go inside the ticketed house. We find that the average air-space of a one-room house is 1,058 cubic feet; the average number of inmates is 3'17, so that the average air-space per inmate is 334 cubic feet. I make no distinction between adults and children, because it is one which is not physiologically justifi- able, and besides it would involve more complicated calculations. The average air-space of a one-room house in the Model Buildings is 2,213 cubic feet, the average number of inmates 2-92, and the average air-space per inmate 758 cubic feet. This is also a high standard. The ordinary non-ticketed one-room house ranges in capacity between 1200 and 1350 cubic feet, and is never crowded down to the legal minimum per inmate. Turning to the ticketed two- room house, we find that the average total air-space is 1,725 cubic feet, the average number of inmates 4-66, and the average air- space per inmate 370 cubic feet. In the Model Buildings the average air-space of a two-room house is 3,158 cubic feet, the average number of inmates 4'29, and the average air-space per inmate 736 cubic feet. The non-ticketed two-room house is simply a duplication or a little more than a duplication of a one- room house, and is always occupied so as to keep far above the legal minimum. The ticketed house, then, is small of its kind to begin with, and owes its ticket to the constant disposition to overcrowding of its inmates. In fact, 13 to 14 per cent, of the one-room houses are found overcrowded when inspected during the night, and 6 to 7 per cent, of the two-room houses. Of the inmates of the ticketed one-room houses, 5 per cent, are lodgers; of the inmates of the two-room houses, 6 per cent. III. What do these people pay for this accommodation'? These houses are taken by the month or by the week. I therefore give monthly rents. These vary slightly in different districts.
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