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of light, air, ventilation, or proper conveniences, or any other sanitary
defect in any buildings, is dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the
inhabitants either of the said buildings or of the neighbouring buildings,
and that the demolition, or the reconstruction and rearrangement, of the
said buildings or of some of them is necessary to remedy the said evils,
and the area comprising those buildings and the yards, outhouses, and
appurtenances thereof, and the site thereof, is too small to be dealt with
as an unhealthy area under part I. of this Act;
"The local authority shall pass a resolution to the above effect, and
direct a scheme to be prepared for the improvement of the said area."
In nearly all of the houses of this area the drainage is defective; the
drains are not ventilated, and in many of them there is no water supply,
and other defects. For a large number of the houses and tenements
there is not a sufficient w.c. accommodation. In some the w.c.'s are
placed in an insanitary position.
All the houses of Half-Moon Court, Providence Place, and Dove
Court have no ventilation under the ground floors, and no damp courses;
the basements of the houses of the area which have them are in a very
dirty and insanitary state—some of them have not been cleansed for
several years.
Some of the houses in Half-Moon Court, Union Terrace, and Union
Buildings have 110 through ventilation.
Many of the rooms in the area are very badly lighted on account of
the close proximity of other buildings ; some of them being almost in
darkness, having only borrowed light.
Many of the houses have only small areas at the back, and some have
no back area at all.
Many of the houses arc dangerous on account of fissures in the walls,
or the bulging of the in in part, or the walls being out of the perpendicular
from sinking of the foundations and other causes; or on account of the
broken and delapidated condition of the stairs, passages floors, walls,
roofs, or chimneys.
Many of the tenements are dangerous to health on account of dampness
of the walls.
In most, the dustbins are defective; some have no proper dustbins at
all. In many, refuse and dust is allowed to accumulate.
The paving of the back yards is generally defective, and the yard
walls very filthy.