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the remarks I have heard I do not think that twelve visits made
by one Inspector would be so annoying to a master as six visits
divided up among three, but if one Inspector were the only one
concerned, all questions could be decided at one visit.
During the year there were several cases of overcrowding reported
in the Hollington Street Area, where there was a comparatively
small deficiency of cubic capacity as measured in accordance
with the requirements of the by-laws regulating houses let in lodgings.
I recommended that in these cases the Committee should take no
action, because in each case the cause of the overcrowding was
poverty, and I thought it would be better not to interfere with the
overcrowding, rather than have the people turned out to suffer
greater ills in other ways.
In the spring of the year I carried out with the Inspector a
visitation of the Hollington Street area, in respect both of the
Council's houses and those belonging to private owners. A copy of
my report is given below.
Hollington Street Area.
In the course of my inspection of the Hollington Street area I have visited
205 houses; 100 of these belonging to the Borough Council, and 105 being the
property of private owners.
The number of houses inspected in each street is as follows: Hollington Street,
50; Sultan Street, 45; Crown Street, 35; Bowyer Street, 29; Toulon Street, 12:
Pitman Street, 15; Gauge Street, 8; Thompson's Avenue, 4; Sultan Terrace, 4:
Brown's Ten-ace, 3. Total, 205.
The defects observed at each are subdivided under the headings of overcrowding,
condition and sanitary defects, chiefly defective roofs, guttering and yard paving.

(Included in Sanitary Defects, Table III.)