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During the fourth quarter of the year, 16 of these streets and courts
were made the subject of inspection, the total number of dwelling-houses
comprised therein being 175. As a result of these inspections, sanitary
defects of one or another kind were found to exist in 92 of the houses,
and notices requiring the remedying of the defects found were served
upon the owners. Four of the houses (Little Blenheim-street) were
closed under the provisions of the Act (see ante).
Forty-one of the houses were inspected by myself, with the Chief
Sanitary Inspector, these houses being in the World's End area, where
there are a number of courts and passages adjacent to World's Endpassage.
The houses are old and decayed, and some of them are defective
in respect of light and ventilation ; but being small, they are for the most
part inhabited by the class of tenants who like to occupy a cottage by
themselves, and, on the whole, the houses were found to be kept fairly
clean and tidy. Although old and showing signs of age and decay, this
class of property is in some respects superior to the more modern
tenement houses, which are occupied by numerous families, as the
possession of a house to themselves seems generally conducive to a desire
on the part of the tenants to make the best of the houses they live in ;
and the gross neglect and sloth of many of the tenement house occupiers
is not much in evidence in this class of property.

Taking the number of persons per bouse as six, 456 persons have
been displaced during 1910 as the result of actual or intended demolitions