─────────────────────────┬─────────╥─────────────────────────┬───────── DWELLINGS. │Number of║ BEDS. │Number of │Families.║ │Families. ─────────────────────────┼─────────╫─────────────────────────┼───────── Single rooms for each │ 929║One bed to each family │ 623 family │ ║ │ Two rooms for each family│ 408║Two beds to each family │ 638 Three rooms for each │ 94║Three beds to each family│ 154 family │ ║ │ Four rooms for each │ 17║Four beds to each family │ 21 family │ ║ │ Five rooms for each │ 8║Five beds to each family │ 8 family │ ║ │ Six rooms for each family│ 4║Six beds to each family │ 3 Seven rooms for each │ 1║Seven beds to each family│ 1 family │ ║ │ Eight rooms for each │ 1║Dwellings without a bed │ 7 family │ ║ │ Not ascertained │ 3║Not ascertained │ 10 │ —————║ │ ————— Total │ 1,465║ Total │ 1,465 ─────────────────────────┴─────────╨─────────────────────────┴───────── Out of 5945 persons 839 were found to be ill, and yet the season was not unhealthy. One family in 11 had a third room (and that not unoccupied) in which to place a corpse. This, however, appears to be a favourable specimen. From an examination made by a committee of the Statistical Society into the condition of the poorer classes in the borough of Marylebone, it appeared that the distribution of rooms amongst the portion of population examined showed that not more than one family in a hundred had a third room. No. occupying part of a room, 159 families, and 196 single persons. No. occupying one room 382 families, and 56 single persons. No. occupying two rooms 61 families, and 2 single persons. No. occupying three rooms 5 families, and 7 single persons. No. occupying four rooms 1 families, and 0 single persons. § 26. Mr. Leonard, surgeon and medical officer of the parish of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, gives the following instances of the circumstances in which the poorest class of inhabitants die, which may be adduced as exemplifications of the dreadful state of circumstances in which the survivors are placed for the want of adequate accommodation for the remains immediately after death, and previous to the interment:—