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each of one room. The cubic capacity of the rooms is from
700-800 cubic feet. The back ventilation is very limited,
consisting only of a small window or skylight on each staircase.
The floors are unventilated, and the houses are worn out and
damp. In some instances the drainage of the houses is also
defective. The number of people resident in the court is
about 70.
The owner recognises the unsatisfactory condition of the
property, but believes that he can remedy most of the defects by
extensive alterations. Works are therefore being carried out at
his instigation and expense with a view to making the houses
habitable within the meaning of the Public Health and Housing
Acts. Whether or not this will prove possible in the long run
remains to be seen. It has been necessary in the past to issue a
large number of sanitary notices with respect to this property,
which have always received the prompt attention of the owners.
Area E is a square of property bounded by York Road,
Ironmonger Row, Lever Street and Hull Street, the outside of
the square consists of about 30 houses Inside the square of
property stand about a dozen cottages and a ginger-beer factory.
The cottages constitute Garden Court and Charles Court, the
latter entered by a narrow passage under an archway and the
former by a narrow passage. All the houses in this property are
old and worn out, with many defects, but particularly is this true
of the two small courts. These, with the ginger-beer factory,
are also unsatisfactory in that they prevent light and air gaining
access to the backs of the houses facing the outer sides of the
square.
These facts, as in the previous areas, were laid before the
owners of the property and arrangements have been come to by
which the whole of the propetry will be rebuilt in the course of
two or three years. But in order to improve the houses on the
outside of the square at once, the inside of the square will be