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although house-room has to be found on this space for about 220,000 inhabitants, 
the general appearance of the streets in almost every part of the town would 
suggest that housing conditions were the reverse of congested. The absence of 
outward signs of unsatisfactory housing may be accounted for by the fact that 
the greater part of present-day Stettin has been built since the demolition of 
the old fortifications in 1873. It would seem as if, in the planning of the new 
parts, the guiding principle had been to make as few streets as possible, but to 
make each street as long, as straight, and as wide as. circumstances would 
permit. One finds, for instance, immediately to the west of the old town, six 
parallel streets running approximately north and south, at intervals of 100 to 
300 yards. These vary from three-quarters of a mile to a mile-and-a-half 
in length, and from 120 to 150 feet in width. Intersecting them at right 
angles are a number of other parallel streets running east and west at intervals 
of about 100 yards. Each of the rectangular blocks of masonry formed by the 
street intersections presents four unbroken street frontages of formal-looking, 
stucco-fronted houses of three or four stories, containing tenements for the 
most part occupied by people of the middle classes. At the back of each such 
row of houses is a second, and sometimes a third, row of buildings invisible 
from the street, and accessible from the latter only through the main doorways 
of the front houses. Back houses are as a rule less lofty than those fronting 
the street, and are separated from the latter by a space of courtyard sufficient to 
ensure adequate lighting and ventilation. Their façades contrast with those of 
the front houses in being absolutely plain, instead of being ornamented with 
stucco relief-work. The tenements in the back houses are for the most part 
occupied by the families of workmen or others of similar economic position. In 
this way the purpose has been achieved of making a very limited area of land 
suffice for the housing of a very considerable population of a mixed character, 
while giving the streets an appearance such as in a British town they would 
only possess in neighbourhoods inhabited exclusively by well-to-do people. 
In respect of parks and open spaces, Stettin does not rank very high among 
the great cities of Germany. The total area of such recreation grounds in the 
town is 171 acres. The municipality owns 12,700 and administers on behalf of 
charitable endowments a further 2,200 acres of land, but only a small part ot 
this (730 acres) is within the urban area. The chief places of open air resort 
in the summer are some distance outside the town, but are brought within easy 
reach by the electric tramway and steamboat services as well as by the railways. 
The water, gas and electricity supplies of the town are in the hands of the 
municipality (the electric, tramways are a private undertaking) which also owns 
about seven miles of quays, on which it has erected warehouses and hydraulic 
and steam cranes and winders. In the fiscal year 1904-5—the last for which the 
figures are available—the Municipal Harbour Department alone employed per 
day on an average 580 workpeople, of whom 388 were regular and 92 
temporary men. 
Occupations, Wages and Hours of Labour. 
There is no precise classification of the industrial population of Stettin for 
any date more recent than that of the occupation census of June, 1895. The 
figures of that census would, however, give an entirely misleading picture of 
the present distribution of that population ; not only because of the great 
expansion which has taken place since 1895 in the industries which were already 
then established in the town, and the changes in their relative importance as 
sources of employment, but also because of the extension of the town boundary in 
1900, which had the effect of bringing within the municipal area certain districts 
in which some of the industries which now rank foremost in local importance 
were being carried on. This is especially true of the shipbuilding trade. At 
the time of the 1895 census the number of workpeople employed in ship 
building in what was then the municipal area of Stettin was 102. It is probable 
that the number would now be found to be at least 6,000. In 1895 the total 
number of industrial workpeople in Stettin was found to be 16,442. At the 
present day tue number cannot be far short of 45,000, as may be inferred from 
the membership of the local funds for effecting the assurance against sickness of 
workpeople employed in industry. 
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