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The Public Health Committee inspected the property on
April 28th, and approving the action which had been taken,
resolved that no further steps were necessary at present in
respect to the matter.
Area E is a square of property bounded by York Road,
Ironmonger Row, Lever Street and Hull Street, the outside of
the square consisting of about 30 houses. Inside the square of
property stood eleven cottages and a ginger-beer factory. The
cottages constituted Garden Court and Charles Court, entered by
narrow passages from Hull Street. All the houses in this
property were old and worn out, with many defects, but particularly
was this true of the two small courts. These, with the gingerbeer
factory, were also unsatisfactory in that they prevented 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 were come to by which
the whole of the property is to 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 was to be cleared
during 1903.
I have to report that the owners fulfilled their contract with
me and these eleven cottages (population 81) were closed and
demolished during 1903. The operations were completed and the
ground inside the square cleared by July 21st, 1903. Charles
Court consisted of six cottages occupied by 44 persons. Each
house contained three rooms one above the other. There were
no basements and only small back yards (5 by 11 feet). There
were many sanitary defects. The houses were empty and closed
at the end of April, and the owner found accommodation for all
the displaced tenants. Garden Court consisted of five cottages,
two of which contained three rooms and three of which contained
two rooms. The number of occupants was 37. These houses
were also empty in April, and accommodation was found for the