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inîthe remaining 8,971 the occupiers paid no rent either because they were the 
owners or in consideration of some service rendered, e.g., by a person who acts 
as general caretaker and collector of rents for the whole of the tenements in a 
large building and discharges the duty imposed by the municipality on the 
houseowner of cleansing the footpath and part of the roadway outside the house 
every day. 
The following Table gives a classification of the 92,157 rented dwellings 
according to their size (number of rooms), and shows the manner in which the 
population was distributed among the tenements of different size :— 
Number of Rooms in 
Tenement. 
1 room 
2 rooms 
3 " 
5 or more rooms 
Number 
of 
Tenements. 
6,206 
41,707 
21,106 
11,331 
8,807 
92,157 
Population housed in each class 
of Tenement. 
Total. 
14,318 
169,016 
89,649 
48,760 
45,503 
367,216 
Per cent. 
39 
46-0 
244 
133 
124 
1000 
From the above it will be seen that practically three-fourths (74\3 per cent.) 
of all persons who rented their dwellings occupied three rooms or less, and that 
■close upon one-half (49*9 per cent.) lived in two rooms or less. 
The number of dwellings consisting of a whole house is so small as to be 
negligible. Over 99 per cent, of the dwellings enumerated at the census of 
1900 were situated on one or other of the floors of a tenement house. This will 
be seen from the following statement :— 
Situation of Dwelling. 
Proportion of all 
Dwellings so Situated. 
Cellar (basement) 
Ground floor 
1st floor... 
2nd „ ... 
3rd „ ... 
4th „ ... 
5th „ (or higher) 
On more than one floor 
Per cent. 
38 
157 
200 
20 6 
201 
16 8 
2*1 
09 
1000 
The few dwellings which consist of the whole of a house are comprised 
among those whose position is described as u on more than one floor, a group 
which represents less than 1 per cent, of all dwellings. 
What are known as “ cellar ” or basement tenements {Keller-Wohnungen) 
are to be seen much more frequently in Breslau than in the cities of West 
Germany. Their occupants in very many cases carry on the business of green 
grocer and huckster in the room which is entered from the street and live in 
the back part of the premises. Nearly 15,000 persons were found to be 
living in 3,853 basement tenements at the end of the year 1900. 
How far matters have improved since the year 1900 in respect of 
■overcrowding and the occupation of tenements cannot be stated in figures 
until the detailed results of the latest housing enumeration (December, 1905) 
have been published. An investigation was, however, made in 1905 by the 
Association of Local Sick Funds (for the statutory Insurance of Workpeople 
against Sickness) into the housing of members on the sick list, and the 
conclusion arrived at was that matters had not improved. I he Report speaks 
of damp cellar dwellings, dark and windowless rooms, absence of ventilation and 
heating arrangements, of beds shared by sick and well, and of overcrowding of 
an aggravated kind.