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The following were the wages of workpeople engaged on public works 
and undertakings at the same date : — 
Weekly Wages. 
Weekly (Tours of 
Labour. 
Roads and Streets :— 
Road-makers 
„ cleaners 
Gasworks f— 
Gas Stokers 
Labourers 
Waterworks :— 
Labourers 
Tramways (company) 
Drivers ... 
Conductors 
Electric Works and Lighting (company) 
Enginemen 
Stokers ... 
Erectors and Installers 
Fitters ... 
Labourers 
22s. 
18s. 
80s. 
21s. 6fi. 
21s. 6d. 
63 
63 
72 
60 
60 
26s. 6d. to 31s. 2d * 
18s. 6(7. „ 23s. Id.* 
30s. 
30s. 
33s. 
27s. 
27s. 
59^ to 63 
59% „63 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
* Maximum wages reached in five years. 
Housing and Rents. 
Up to 1901 thestn all house of one story and an attic (of the type already 
described, and intended for one or two families) was predominant in Remscheid. 
The following tables show the conditions and movement between 1887 and 
1900 (the latest year for which the figures are available) :— 
/.—Houses. 
Year. 
1887 
1893 
1899-1900 
Houses for One 
Family. 
Houses for Two 
Families. 
Houses for Three or 
more Families. 
No. 
1,252 
1,361 
1,614 
Per cent, of j 
all Houses. I 
40 
361 
35 4 
No. 
797 
903 
1,117 
Per cent, of 
all Houses. 
No. 
255 1,077 
23-9 j 1,505 
244 j 1,834 
Per cent, of 
all Houses. 
34-5 
40 
402 
Total. 
3,126 
3,769 
4,565 
II.—Housing and Lents. 
Year. 
Average No. 
of Persons per 
Dwelling. 
1887 
1899-1900 ... 
5-1 
4-7 
Average No. 
of Rooms per 
Dwelling. 
2-48 
250 
Average No. 
of Persons per 
Room. 
2-00 
1-88 
Average Rent 
per Dwelling per 
Annum. 
£7 16s. 
£9 
It will be noticed that between 1887 and 1900 the houses for one or two 
families decreased from 65-5 per cent, to 59*8 per cent, of the whole. Since 
1900 the proportion of houses for three or more families is believed to have 
further increased, but actual figures are not available. The growth of the 
larger houses has followed upon the increase of dependent (i.e. factory) 
workmen, who take ordinary dwellings. It is noticeable that most of the small 
masters, and some of the independent workmen, have houses of their own, 
often subject to mortgage. 
The styles of building are two—" massive ” and " half-timber work.” The 
“ massive ” ‘buildings are those of modern erection and are of the tenement type,