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2. FRANCIS COURT includes in a small yard lying off it on the
east side two cottages, called Albion Cottages, with one w.c.
between them. The Court is a blind alley, only approached
from Berkley Street—itself a narrow thoroughfare. All the
houses are old, some very dilapidated. No. 2 is closed as unfit
for habitation. Backyards to houses small, especially on east
side.
3. BERKLEY COURT similarly opens into Berkley Street, and
is a blind alley blocked by wall of backyards in Albion Place,
containing 15 houses of three storeys, let out in tenements.
One house has been shut up for years, the basement had become
a receptacle for all kinds of filth, and the owner was
traced with difficulty.
4. EAGLE COURT.—Approached from Red Lion Street by a
very narrow covered entry, and from St. John's Lane by an
archway of sufficient width to admit a cart. Fifteen houses of
varying size, of which Nos. 13, 14, 15, and No. 2 are so placed
that it is impossible for their inhabitants to obtain a sufficiency
of light and air.
5. JERUSALEM COURT is a narrow winding Court, entered
from St. John's Square by a covered entry, with block of model
dwellings on the north side, which medical men have stated to
be very unhealthy, without through ventilation, and such as
should never have been built. Air and light are obstructed by an
archway under a dwelling house midway in the court. Beyond
this archway eastwards are several houses, old, dilapidated, shut
out from sufficient air and light by the houses in Albemarle
Street, and having once formed part of the large mansions
built there more than 200 years ago.
6. AYLESBURY PLACE.—Entered from Aylesbury Street by
very narrow arched entry opening through a narrow passage
into a wider paved court, closed in on all sides, consisting of
29 small two-roomed houses.
7. BISHOP'S COURT.—Narrow, blind alley, paved, entered
from Aylesbury Street, containing about 76 rooms, and a
population at the time of the Committee's visit of 180 persons
—11 houses exceptionally tall, containing three floors and
basement, apparently about 150 years old, and probably from
their internal fittings and general decoration intended when