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Duchy of Cornwall Property—Marsh Ward.
During 1909, attention was drawn to the dirty and dilapidated
condition into which many of the houses had recently
fallen in connection with that portion of the Duchy of Cornwall
Estate which is situated in the Marsh Ward, and
comprises the whole of the premises on the east side of
Waterloo Road, extending from St. John's Church to the
river, including the whole of the premises in Stamford
Street (lying within the ecclesiastical Parish of Lambeth),
portions of Commercial Road and Cornwall Road, the whole
of Doon Street and Aquinas Street, Coin Street and Bazon
Street, together with the Courts leading from such Streets,
e.g., Cornwall Place, Salutation Place, Peer's Cooperage,
Milan Place, Elizabeth Place, Bond Place, and Cage Place,
The condition of the property comprised in this area has
undergone considerable alteration during the past 6 to 12
months, owing to the falling in of a large number of
leases, and whilst some of the houses have been thoroughly
renovated, re-built or reconstructed, others are in a dirty,
dilapidated and dismantled condition, being, consequently,
unfit for habitation. The facts may be summarised as
follows :—
1. Waterloo Road—Some of the houses have been
thoroughly renovated, whilst others are in a very
dirty and dilapidated condition;
2. Stamford Street—The Duchy has inaugurated a
scheme for converting houses into self-contained
flats (with baths and lavatories, and with hot and
cold water), and some of these are now completed
and occupied, and are a decided sanitary improvement,
but many of the remaining houses are in a
dirty and dilapidated condition, whilst in the front
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