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The general and zymotic rates of mortality or the district of bt. Saviour are therefore greater
than those of London, and they compare unfavourably with those of all the surrounding districts with
the exception of St. George-the-Martyr.
The district of St. Saviour has, at the present time, a rateable value of £348,189.
The Borough Market makes a return of about £7,000 a year, which has hitherto been applied to
the reduction of the rate for the maintenance of the poor in the parish of St. Saviour; about a year
ago, however, Parliamentary powers were obtained to borrow a sum of £100,000 for the purpose of
extending and improving the market, and the £7,000 a year therefore will henceforth he applied to the
paying off of that debt.
The houses in the district of St. Saviour are mostly brick structures of two and three storeys in
height. They are for the most part situated in fairly wide streets, having regard to their height, and
have with certain exceptions through ventilation and yard space in their rear.
In numerous instances the ground floor is one or more feet below the level of the adjoining
pavement, a condition which it is stated is due to the raising of the road at a time subsequent to the
erection of the house.
The district has been altered by the construction of main thoroughfares and the development
of railways, and dwelling houses, particularly in localities near the river, have been replaced by large
warehouses. A number of courts and alleys have thus disappeared, but others remain, and some of
these are open to greater objection on health grounds than houses situated in streets.
St. Margaret's-court is approached by an archway beneath a house in High-street, Borough, and is
continued into Redcross-street. The width of the court varies from nine to thirty feet, the greater part
of it being about fourteen feet wide. On either side of the court is a row of houses three storeys in
height. The houses were, when inspected, generally in a fair state of repair, but the majority have no
through ventilation or back yards, and the waterclosets are situated in the basement; other houses
in this court have a scullery on the ground floor, ventilated by an opening in the rear, and in these cases
the watercloset is situated in the scullery. In four instances houses in this court had been closed.
Queens Arm' s-court is approached by an archway beneath a house in Upper Ground-street. The
width of the court is fifteen and a half feet, and the houses are three storeys in height. The court
consists of a double row of houses, twelve in all. The yard space of these houses is limited, those on
the west side of the court having yards three feet nine inches deep, and those on the east side five feet deep.
Other groups of cottages two storeys in height are still to be found in the district. Between the
north of Sumner-street and the river is a considerable area occupied by more than one hundred houses
of this class and irregularly placed. In this area are—
William's-court, approached by an archway five feet wide under a house in Sumner-street; the
passage-way between the houses is nine feet wide, and the height of the houses is about twenty feet.
They have yard space at their rear of a little more than a hundred square feet in area.
Pitt's-place, a cul-de-sac, consists of a double row of similar houses, the width of this court being
about eighteen and a half feet. On the south side, the houses have about eighty square feet of yard
space; on the north side, nearly one hundred and fifty square feet.
Ladd's-court, a cul-de-sac, is a continuation of Pitt's-place; the width of the courts about fourteen
feet, and the houses are from two to three storeys high. On the south side the back yards vary from
fifty to one hundred and twenty square feet, and on the north side they are about seventy square feet in
area.
Noah's Ark-all«y.—The passage-way is at the widest part about seven and a half feet in width ; there
is a single row of houses two and three storeys in height, fronted by workshops ; the houses have back
yards of nearly one hundred and fifty square feet in area.
White Hind-alley consists of a single row of cottages, two and three storeys in height, situated on a
passage-way from five and a half to eleven feet wide, and fronted by a high wall. The yard space at the
rear of these cottages varies from fifty-six to over ninety square feet in area.
Moss-alley.—Tne houses are two and three storeys in height, fronting a passage-way from eight to
sixteen feet wide; the back yards on the east side are about eighty square feet in area, on the west
side about seventy square feet.