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In the Princess Place Sub.Area the houses, with the exception of
No. 21 Princess Place, are of the two.room type, one room above the
other, each having a floor space of 10 square feet and a height of 7 feet.
There is a small washhouse and a very small yard in connection with
each. The rooms in the houses in Caffrey Place are less that 7 feet high
and the house structure is very dilapidated. The structure of the houses
in Princess Place is in better condition, but not satisfactory. The courts
average a width of 12 feet and are only open at one end, the blind end
abutting on warehouses. Each house has a water.closet in a good state
of repair. The population is 115 persons and the death.rate for the four
years 1901.4, was respectively 17.3, 17.3, 52.1 and 26.0, making an
average of 28.1 per 1,000.
The houses in the remaining portion of the King.s Court Area, with
the exception of those in Sturge Street and Great Suffolk Street, with four
in Queen.s Court, are one.storey dwellings contained in King.s Court and
Queen.s Court. These one.floor dwellings have two rooms, 8 and 10 feet
square, and open on to a common yard at the rear in which one water.closet
for two dwellings is situated. The King and Queen.s Courts are 22 feet
wide. With dwarf buildings of this kind there is sufficient light and
ventilation.
In Sturge Street the houses are of two.storeys, and consist of four
rooms, excepting Nos. 10, 11 and 17, which are rather larger. The rooms
average from 11 to 12 feet square with a height of 8 feet for the lower
rooms and 7 feet for the upper. The structure of the houses is fair and
the sanitary appliances are in good order. Each has a small washhouse
and a back yard. The houses in Great Suffolk Street are three storeys
high, and the lower storey in the houses 106 to 92, with the exception of
the "Moonrakers" P.H. and the Victoria Model Dwellings, are used as
shops, with a small room at the back. The remaining houses from 91 to
85 are three storey private houses, each having a cellar basement with
two rooms on each floor. The lower storey of No. 85 is divided between
a private room and a barber.s shop. The houses are old, but in a fair
state of repair, possessing all the necessary sanitary appliances, with a
small yard and washhouse at the back. There is no deficiency in regard
to the light and ventilation of the Sturge Street houses or those in Great
Suffolk Street.
In the four years 1901.4, 402 notices were served in connection with
the houses in King.s Court Area, of which 91 were for drainage, 55 for
cleansing alone, and 127 for defective water.closet appliances, yard paving,
roofs, &c., with the cleansing of the premises.