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opportunity for a reconsideration of the matter, accordingly
during the early part of 1911 every house on the
area was visited and carefully examined by Inspector
Henley and a note taken as to its condition, these notes
I subsequently verified by personal inspection. A fresh
set of mortality statistics for every street and place on
the area was prepared, of which the following is a
summary:—
There are altogether 135 houses on the area
inhabited by 761 persons, of whom 334 are children
under five years of age. The average death rate
for the three years 1908-1910 was 29.4 per thousand
persons living, against 16.8 in the whole of Bethnal
Green for a similar period. The 761 inhabitants
constitute 173 separate families, 44 of which live in
single room tenements. I found that since I last
made a systematic house-to-house inspection of this
district, a large amount of repair work, including in
many instances actual re-building, had been carried
out, the chief defective portions remaining being
the large block of back-to-back houses in Digby
Street and Digby Walk, and the aged and worn out
condition of a number of other houses. On consideration
I was not very hopeful that a new
representation would be more successful than the
previous one, but as a rehousing scheme for this
district would give an opportunity for carrying out
a much needed public improvement, namely, the
widening of Green Street, I requested the Public
Health Committee to view the area with me. The
Committee agreed upon inspection, that it was