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No. 6.—Margarets Place Area.—2 Acres, 137 houses, population
888. Congested and worn out.
No. 7.—Teale Street Area.—4 Acres, 137 bouses, population
822. Houses small and worn out.
No. 8.—Punderson Gardens Area—3 Acres, 132 houses, population
792. Houses small, damp and worn out.
No. 9.—Turin Street Area.—4 Acres, 141 houses, population
846. Congested and worn out.
No. 10.—Diss Street Area.—2 Acres, 70 houses, population 420.
Part of area already cleared. Remaining houses insanitary.
No. 11.—Kirkwall Place Area. —J Acre, 24 houses, population
144. Houses more or less obstructive and insanitary.
No. 12.—Martha Court Area.—J Acre, 22 houses, population
132. Houses old and damp, some back-to-back.
No. 13.—Manchester Buildings Area.—J Acre, 18 houses,
population 108. Houses damp and congested.
Notwithstanding the lapse of time, only two of
these areas have been dealt with, one by the Borough
Council's scheme for part of the Diss Street Area,
which has been completed, and the other by tLie
London County Council Brady Street Improvement
Scheme, which is still being carried out. Doubtless,
the remaining areas contain some houses which,
judged by the low standard prevailing in any large
urban district, must be regarded as passable, but for
the most part they consist of houses which, by their
structure and condition, are utterly inconsistent with
considerations of health and comfort, and can be
kept, even in their present very indifferent condition,
only by continually taking action under the Public
Health Acts.
Procedure in respect to individual houses under
the Housing Acts is legally possible, but precluded by
common sense and humanity so long as no alternative
accommodation is available for the families at present
housed in these unhealthy areas. The difficulties of the
situation are accentuated by the long-continued unemployment
of a large section of the population. It