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Public Health Department,
The Town Hall,
Patriot Square,
Bethnal Green, E.,
30th June, 1914.
Dear Miss Lewis,
Adverting to the call of your Miss Bunbury on
me the other day respecting certain cases of overcrowding,
I beg leave to report that the premises
have all been visited and the inspectors' reports are
as follows:—
S., Q B .
The inspector reports there are no insanitary
conditions existing at these premises. Mrs. S. and
her family occupy two rooms, the mother and two
girls sleeping in the near room, and the four boys
sleeping in the far room. The cubic capacity of the
one room is 994 cubic feet, and of the other room
866 cubic feet, consequently there is no legal overcrowding
and although, from a hygienic point of
view, it is most undesirable that card-box making, or
any process entailing the use of strong and offensive
smelling glue, should be carried on in any dwelling,
this is not—in the present state of the law—illegal,
neither can this Authority interfere with it. The
woman appears to be very poor, the children do not
seem to have any change of clothes, and I understand
they stop in the room naked while such clothes
as they have are being washed.