FIVE ████ 22 SIX ████ 19 OVER SIX ███████████ 57 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. [Illustration: 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. _TABLE NUMBER IV_ _Rents Paid in Rooming Houses by 305 Roomers_ +-------------------------+------------+ | | Percentage | +-------------------------+------------+ | 168 paid $1.50 per week | 55 | | 103 paid $1.75 per week | 34 | | 13 paid $2.00 per week | 4.25 | | 14 paid $3.00 per week | 4.25 | | 7 paid Over $3.00 | 2.5 | | | ______ | | | 100 | +-------------------------+------------+ The rents paid by these roomers are shown in table number IV. They varied from $1.50 to $3.00 per week, and in a few instances were as high as $4.00 per week. In a number of cases, the men also board in the same place in which they room, paying from five to seven or eight dollars per week for food and shelter. _TABLE NUMBER V._ ONE WEEK’S COST OF BOARD PER MAN $2 PER WEEK ██ 4 $3 PER WEEK █████████████████ 34 $4 PER WEEK ███████████████████ 39 $5 PER WEEK █████████████████████████████ 59 $6 PER WEEK ██████████████████████████████████████ 77 $7 PER WEEK ████████████████ 31 $8 PER WEEK ████████████ 24 AND OVER