Bloom Street Lodging House, Salford.-This lodging house, which is a fair, average specimen of municipal lodging houses, consists of two main blocks, each four storeys high, with a connecting landing and staircase above the ground floor. The entrance hall is 30 feet wide and 36 feet long, with a large day room on the left, 71 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 14 feet high, and also a locker room with compartments numbered to correspond with the cubicles in the dormitory. To the right of the entrance hall is the dining room, 48 feet by 31 feet, containing grills, cooking ranges, and other fittings. This room is connected with the grocery shop, scullery, crockery store, and kitchen, from which the lodger can buy provisions at a cheap rate, and borrow the crockery and cooking utensils required. At the rear of the block are the baths, lavatories, washhouses, and sanitary conveniences, giving the greatest facilities for cleanliness. Above the ground floor are six dormitories, 12 feet high, divided into a total of 285 cubicles by sheet steel partitions. Each cubicle contains a spring mattress, bed, blankets, sheets, and quilt, chair, locked box, mirror, and comb; and allows a space of nearly 600 cubic feet for each lodger. An external fire escape staircase has been provided. The cost of building, fitting, and furnishing was 14.380, and the charge 6d. per night.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

BLOOM STREET LODGING HOUSE, SALFOrd.
The 2nd and 3rd Floors are similar in arrangement to the 1st Floor.

HARRISON STREET MUNICIPAL LODGING HOUSE, MANCHESTER. Rent, 6d. per Night, with use of Common Rooms.

A similar arrangement to this prevails in the Salford and other Municipal

Lodging Houses.

Statistics as to Municipal Lodging Houses. It will be seen from the following tables that the cost of building, furnishing, and fitting varied from £37 to £71 per head of the accommodation; the three most modern being £61 per head. The daily charge varies from 3d. to 6d. according to the quality of accommodation provided. It will be seen that some pay very well, but others are carried on at a loss.

The men's branch of the Croydon lodging house pays, but not the women's part.