except for that the bedrooms had no ventilation whatever, save such as they might get from the living room or from the windows,opening on to this ill-smelling and narrow court, eight inches wide. The cellars of these buildings were occupied by school sinks, for the use of all the tenants of both front and rear buildings. These cellars opened into the courtyard and had no other means of ventilation. They were damp, the floor being constantly wetted by the water from the hydrants in front of the buildings and by the sinks. The smell from the cellars going through the whole house was almost unendurable. The stairways in the buildings are narrow and steep, and always were dark and foul; and smoke and coal gas from the defective chimney flues have discolored the walls and ceilings so that it is impossible to make them white. The roofs leak, causing the rooms to be wet. The plaster on the walls and ceilings is cracked in many places, and portions of it have fallen. The places around the sinks in the hall are constantly damp from the waste splash. The houses swarm with vermin throughout. Every room is damp and filled with air which is foul and unfit to breathe. There is no possible way in which the sun could shine into these buildings. The only sunlight which could approach them is that which at certain hours of the day filters down into this court eleven feet wide, along their front, but the rays of the sun which fall into that courtyard for a short time during the day cannot enter any of the rooms of the house, and are insufficient to properly light the lower floors, which are so dark that for a" large portion of the time artificial light has to be used in them, as might be expected. What little sunlight filters into this court is obstructed by the fire escapes along the fr