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house has a small yard. The court is 9 feet wide in its
widest part, 4 feet 3 inches in its narrowest part. There
are 87 persons living in the Row.
Clarence Place, north side, consists of 12 houses, having two or
three small rooms. Each occupied by families of from
6-10 persons. The yards are all very small and as there
are no back windows there is an absence of ventilation.
The ceilings of the rooms are also very low, not more than
6 or 7 ft. high.
Clarence Street consists of 4 houses having 5 or 6 rooms each.
Each house is occupied by 2 families. The yards are very
small and much enclosed.
Europa Place has eight houses on west side having 5 or 6 rooms
each. In several there are no back windows. They are
used as tenement houses and the yards are very small.
The ceilings in the upper rooms are low, being about only
6ft. high.
Lever Street.—(81-109). The houses are very old and are
mostly shops. Each has 6-8 rooms and the yards are
built over making back rooms. The staircases are dark
and the houses are without proper ventilation. They are
let out in tenements.
8. Roby Street Area is a block of property bounded on the
N. by Mitchell Street, on the E. by the west side of a public house
in Mitchell Street, and the rear of the houses in Helmet Row, on
the S. by the rear of the houses in Old Street, and on the W. by the
eastern side of a house in Mitchell Street, by the Amias Almshouses,
by the rear of the houses in Richard's Place, and by the western
boundary of Richard's Place. The area comprises about ¾ of an acre,
say 3,630 yards, of which 3,050 yards are covered with buildings
There are 50 houses and 218 persons—which allows about 14 yards
lo each person. The property generally speaking is of the worst
description.