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The cottages, 13 in number, consist of two rooms, one on
the ground floor and one on the first floor. The size of the
rooms is 9 feet wide, 9 feet long 1 , and 6 feet 9 inches high.
Each house has a small backyard in the rear, 11 feet by
3 feet 8 inches, in which is placed the W.C. and water
tap. The height of the cottages is about 18 feet from paving
to coping. They are badly constructed, built of inferior
materials, and in a dilapidated state. The front
walls have deviated very much from the perpendicular,
and in one house the party wall has separated from the
front and back walls, so that daylight is seen through
the corners of the room. The population consisted of 13
families— 80 persons, 40 adults and 34 children. Rather
more than half of the present occupiers earn their living
outside the boundaries of the parish. The notifications of
infectious diseases received respecting inmates of this court
during the last twelve months were 2 cases of erysipelas
in October and December, 1897, and 3 cases of diphtheria
in July and August of the present year. The deaths during
the same period were a child from cellulitis on 13th November,
1897, a child from marasmus on July 5th, and a
child from whooping cough on July 9th of the present
year.
I am of opinion that the area is too small and not of
sufficient importance for the London County Council to
include it in any scheme for a public improvement; that
the condition of lighting and ventilation is not so bad as
that of other premises which have been represented to the