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displaced up to the present, as far as could be obtained.* The
result is as follows:—
Aylesbury
Place Area.
Garden
Row Area.
Roby
Street Area
Baltic
Street Area.
Honduras
Street Area.
Total.
No of persons
displaced.
86 108 180 126 34 534
Taking the original population therefore, 1,704, and subtracting
534, there ought to be on the areas a remaining population of 1170.
Actually there is 1,352. Hence it is obvious that some of the
persons displaced, or some outsiders, have crowded into the
169 remaining dwelling houses. Thus, closure of houses has not
meant in all cases the departure of the population, but accentuation
of the overcrowding on the area. An illustration will make this
clear. The Aylesbury Place area contained a population of 511 at
the time of representation. Now it contains 464, a difference of 47.
But 14 houses have been closed, six of which at the time of repre—
sentation contained residents, the others were empty. The six
houses contained 86 persons, who were displaced, and yet the
population on the area is not 425 {i.e.—511 minus 86) but 464, or,
in other words, 40 people have crowded into the already over—
crowded houses remaining on the smaller area. This appears to be
an assumption until one compares the present population in these
remaining houses to the population resident there in 1900 at the
time of the enquiry, which is as follows :—
{Jerusalem Court is omitted, as the place where the closures have
occurred.)
° Persons received notice to quit on account of non-payment of rent. They
were not "displaced " on account of impending demolition, and therefore it has
been assumed that their departure was purely voluntary. As regards the
particular tenants that is so. But, as a matter of fact, in many cases the houses
were closed behind them and boarded up, so that in actual practice the available
accommodation on the areas was reduced. If the houses had remained open
for other tenants there would have been no such reduction. As it happened
there was, in fact, "displacement," although it was not displacement for
demolition purposes.