New York, Jan. 5.—That this city build 100,000 cottages for sale on the building and loan plan, is proposed by Dr. Royal Copeland, Commissioner of Health, as a method of relieving the housing shortage revealed in a recent sur vey made by his department. This shows a 7 per cent. increase- in overcrowding since the survey made in March. The spring survey showed 19 per cent. overcrowding in the city, the second just completed shows 26 per cent. The number of lodgers, he says, was found to have increased from 31,616 in the spring to 69,989. The second survey, Dr. Copeland: said, was made to include the better class section of the upper West Side and the Park slope area in Brooklyn, but although it had been reported that there were many vacant apartments, the survey showed very few and many of those uninhabited are too high priced. Numerous instances of the subdivision of apartments with small and unsatisfactory kitchenettes were found.—"Exchange"
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