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The water supply of the houses was derived from four taps.
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 have two rooms each, together with a leanto
structure at the rear of the house.
In some of the houses, this structure was used as a sleeping
apartment.
The height of the living room is 7 feet 6 inches, and of the
bedroom 6 feet 6 inches.
The houses were generally in a bad state of repair, the
floors, stairs, windows and rain water pipes being more or less
dilapidated. The walls were damp, and the brickwork of the
rear walls was specially defective.
Nos. 5—20 were larger houses and each consisted of a living
room and scullery downstairs and two rooms upstairs.
The living room and scullery, and the front bedrooms are the
same height as, and correspond almost exactly to, the rooms of
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
In Nos. 5—20, the walls of the scullery had been raised
about three feet and thus a small room had been formed over
the scullery. This room was occupied in all the houses as a
bedroom, but its maximum height was 6ft. 6ins., and it sloped
down to a height of 3ft. 4in.
All the woodwork was decayed, consequently the windows,
floors, doors and staircases were in a bad state of repair. In
some instances the windows would not open. The floors and
walls of the scullery were damp, owing partly to the fact that
the scullery floor was lower than the ground at the rear. In
some of the houses the floor of the living room was lower than
the level of the ground in front of the houses.
Notices were served upon the owners and extensive work
was carried out which almost completely altered the character of
the premises.