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HOUSES CLOSED AFTER SERVICE OF NOTICE
OR VOLUNTARILY.
Dove Court, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 have been
demolished and rebuilt.
Boswell Court, 5.
Verulam Street, 9. Rebuilt.
Leather Lane, 31, 36. No. 36 demolished, and new premises being
erected.
Glasshouse Yard, 21. Demolished, and new premises being
erected.
Kingsgate Street, 16.
Baldwin's Gardens, opposite Evelyn Buildings. Houses demolished,
and a factory is being erected.
AREAS REPORTED UPON.
On March 23rd I presented a report to the Board on an insanitary
area between Leather Lane and the 0ray's Inn Road.
This was ordered to be printed, and each member had a copy, I shall
therefore not again give the details, but only my general statement,
which was as follows:—
I beg to report upon an insanitary area as shown in the accompanying
plan, .and the plan of the same on a larger scale which the surveyor has
kindly prepared for me.
The area contains the houses of Portpool Lane, Nos. 9 to 23 inclusive,
Half-Moon Court, Crown Court, Verulam Street, Nos. 15 to 21 inclusive,
Baldwin's Place, Providence Place, Union Terrace, Union Buildings,
Dove Court, and Leather Lane, Nos. 66 to 71 inclusive.
The above houses of Portpool Lane project beyond the lino of frontage
of the buildings east and west of them, and are overshadowed by the
lofty premises of the brewery opposite.
No. 66, Leather Lane is in a line with the northern houses of Union
Buildings, and No. 71 is in a line with the back areas of the southern
houses of Dove Court.
Under the "Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890," sec. 39,
sub-sec. 1 (b):—
"Where it appears to the local authority that the closeness, narrowness,
and bad arrangement or bad condition of any buildings, or the want