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(however small) is scarcely to be found. Windowless rooms do not exist, nor 
are there any rooms in which the height from floor to ceiling measures less than 
9 feet ; the water supply is in the kitchen, so that water need not be fetched 
from the landing. 
On the whole it must be said that there is no lack of cheerful and whole 
some tliree-roomed and four-roomed dwellings in Dresden ; the supply, in fact, 
exceeds the demand, as may be seen from the results of the yearly count of 
vacant dwellings published by the Municipal Statistical Office since 1899. The 
following statement* shows the number and percentage proportion of dwellings 
which were untenanted on 31st October of each of the years 1899-1905 :— 
Year. 
Untenanted Dwelling's. 
Total Number. 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
2,868 
4,124 
5,405 
6,131 
8,796 
9,605 
9,135 
Percentage 
Proportion of all 
Dwellings. 
3- 10 
4- 33 
5 51 
6 09 
7 21 
7-58 
7-08 
Thus, both absolutely and relatively, the number of empty dwellings has 
increased each year from 1899 till 1904 inclusive, and for the first time shows a 
decline in 1905. To some extent this decline is due to a falling off in the 
supply of new dwellings through decreased building. The number of new 
houses and dwellings built in each of the years 1903-5 has been as follows :— 
Year. 
New Houses Built. 
1903 
1904 
1905 
No. 
418 
439 
307 
New Dwellings 
contained in those 
Houses. 
No. 
4,369 
4,063 
2,818 
Another cause of the decrease in the number of empty dwellings is the 
increased demand for housing arising out of the improvement of trade. 
Eighty per cent, of the empty dwellings are tenements consisting of four 
rooms or less, and it would seem that three-fourths of all households in Dresden, 
irrespective of their social status, live in such tenements. This is shown by the 
subjoined statement :— 
of the number of rooms stated below. \ 
Number of Rooms. 
One room 
Two rooms 
Three rooms 
Four rooms 
Five rooms 
Six or more rooms 
Proportion of all House 
holds (j.er Cent). 
08 
3*5 
27-8 
43 5 
1 i\S 
ic*.; 
Monatsberichte des Statistischen Amtes der Stadt Dresden auf das Jahr 1905, 
Dresden, 1903, p. 19.