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Brady street The most important feature in connection with
Area.
Housing occurring during recent years is, of course, the Brady Street Area, the details of which the Members of
the Council are all too familiar with, and in respect of
which a Public Inquiry was held on the 24th October,
1913.
It seems necessary to refer to the fact that the Brady
Street Area, although so long delayed, does not by any
means represent all the areas of Housing required for
this Borough. As a matter of fact there are some four or
five smaller areas equally congested, and equally ripe for
treatment under Part 1 of the Act, but unfortunately,
although these areas were all agreed to be ripe for treatment
some years since, and although every effort is being
made to keep them in a reasonable state of sanitation,
there seems no immediate prospect of any one of them
being dealt with so far as it is possible to judge.
Special As regards the appointment of a Special Officer
House under the provisions of the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Visitation.
Act, it seems, notwithstanding the excellent efforts
made by Mr. Richards in this connection, that we are
now arriving at the same position as the officers of the
local authorities were in 1892 and 1893, when similar
serious effort was being made to execute the provisions
of the Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1890. Now,
as then, the effort seems to result in the spasmodic closing
of a few houses here and there, the more or less efficient
repair of such houses, their subsequent re-occupation,
and, after a few months' wear and tear by a not too careful
class of tenant, a relapse into the original condition.