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The buildings were completed last year and are now
fully occupied, giving accommodation for about 1,500
people, which is about the same number as those displaced
by the demolition of the old buildings.
Widening of Great Wild Street and Kemble Street.
The public ways of Great Wild Street, at its southern
end, and Kemble Street, were widened by the Metropolitan
Board of Works in carrying out the above Scheme. The
portion of Great Wild Street abutting on the site, was
formerly from 24 ft. to 30 ft. wide, and Kemble Street was
from 20 ft. to 23 ft. wide; they have been made in no part
less than 40 ft. wide, and their surfaces repaved by the
Metropolitan Board of Works with new York stone in the
footways, and new granite pitching in the carriage-ways.
The remaining length of the paving in Great Wild Street,
being in bad condition, has since been taken up by
your Board, and the footways and carriage-way repaved
with similar paving to those laid by the Metropolitan
Board.
The improvement on the narrow, ill-ventilated streets,
courts and alleys, and the wretched habitations in them,
which has been affected under the Scheme is very marked,
and can only be properly appreciated by those who were
acquainted with the previous state of the property, and
able to compare it with the present aspect of the locality.