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(6) South-west District.—Barker-street, Emma-place,
Holmes-place, Kensington-buildings, Park-terrace,
and Providence-terrace.
No action was taken upon the report.
It may be mentioned that in October, 1885, the Sanitary
Committee settled and recommended a list of 152 streets in
the order in which it appeared to them desirable that the said
streets should be considered for registration purposes. The
list was reported to, and adopted by your Vestry; but it still
remains to give effect to the recommendation in a very large
proportion of the streets.
OVERCROWDING.
Several instances of the dangerous nuisance of overcrowding
came to light and were dealt with during the year. This
nuisance is but too common, arising from the dearness of accommodation
and the consequent inflation of rents. Some
bad cases found in the "Notting-dale" special area are
deserving of note, all. of them having been discovered on
inspection made by Inspector Steward, under police protection,
in the early morning, and before the people had left their beds.
In one (so called " furnished ") room, having a cubic capacity
of 1,000 feet, five adult females (the required air space being
2,000 cubic feet) were found, of whom two young women were
hidden under the bed. At another house in Sirdar-road, five
adults (one a man) and two children were found in one (" furnished
") room. In this case also two young women were found
hidden under the bed. The air space of the room is 1,650
cubic feet, the required amount being 2,400 feet. Tne Sanitary
Committee directed proceedings to be taken against the
"Keepers," of the houses, and the occupiers of the rooms, both
ot the houses being registered. It was hoped that the publicity
obtained by prosecutions for breach of your Vestry's bye-laws,