What's the average lifespan in the Detroit ghettos? A few
electrocutions won't change it much.

That said, there is NO EXCUSE for shoddy or substandard work. Which
does not necessarily mean every shack needs to be up to code.

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does the OP description sound SAFE???

paste from his first post

Have a client with a house built in the '20s, originally knob and
tube
wired but (partly) converted to more modren wiring methods. Basement
ceiling is exposed and where the majority of the house wiring is.
Lots
of strange, non-standard and some clearly improper wiring exists
the
"flying" splices between K&T wiring and NM or armored cable (no
junction
box), and one place where someone just ran a single insulated wire
(THHN
or whatever) as a neutral from one place to another. Plus exposed K&T
runs going everywhere, one right next to the hot-water shutoff valve.