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HOUSING.
No material industrial development of Stoke Newington is
likely, and the demand for houses will mainly continue to come
from those who are industrially employed elsewhere. There is an
urgent need of more dwellings in Stoke Newington in order to
reduce the excessive occupation of many existing ones.
During the year 1925 most of the least satisfactory dwellings
within the Borough were inspected. These, with other dwellings,
gave a total of 1560 dwellings inspected.
WHITE HART COURT.
This court is approached by a passage about 20 ft. long, between
Nos. 73 and 75, High Street, the average width of the passage being
about 2 ft. 9 in. It consists of a courtyard, with three two-roomed
cottages on the North side and three on the South side. One
cottage on the South side was vacated last year, and two are now
empty.
At the West end of the court are two small sculleries, and two
small water-closets, for the use of the occupants of the six cottages.
These premises have been reported to the Public Health Committee
on several occasions, and if it had not been for the war,
doubtless the Committee would have recommended the Council
that they should be closed and demolished. The Chief Sanitary
Inspector and I are strongly of opinion that such action should no
longer be delayed, for the following reasons :
1. The premises and their sanitary and domestic arrangements
fall far short of modern requirements for healthy, decent
living.
2. There is not sufficient room for more than three persons
in each cottage; and they have almost always been overcrowded.