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sense the common property of all tenants. In the basements are 

 laundries for the use of tenants who prefer not to do their washing in 

 their own rooms, and the roofs provide ample space where children 

 may play or for older folks to rest or do their light housework in the 

 open air. 



Within the tenements, all the woodwork and structural furnishings 

 are planned in the simplest possible way. There is no attempt at orna- 

 mentation, but everything is done to further the effort to secure cleanli- 

 ness and wholesomeness. The floors are of concrete monolythic con- 

 struction, or all of one solid surface and they have the sanitary base 

 which means that they round up gradually into the walls with no sharp 

 joints or corners. 



The buildings are lighted throughout with electricity, but there are 

 gas ranges for cooking over which are wide metal hoods which carry 

 the odors and vapors from the stove into a flue which runs up into a 

 pipe extending high above the floor of the roof. Sanitary earthenware 

 is used in the bath rooms and for the set-tubs in the kitchens. 



