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14
Inspection of District.
There is now very little slum property in the district. The
houses for the most part are of the cottage type with small forecourts
and back gardens, the whole tenement situated on a
plot of land about 12 feet x 75 - 90. fronting a road 40 feet wide.
Every house is by the bye-laws compelled to provide a back entrance
which means long lengths of back ways, which soon get into
bad condition unless properly looked after, or, as in the Council's
houses cemented over. In order to fill up depressions in the path
&c. people will put down cinder ash, potato peelings, and all sorts
of refuse which in wet weather renders the back ways in a most
insanitary condition. For these and other reasons not sanitary I
think the bye-law should be done away with. The drain coming
under one house in a dozen or so properly constructed, could do no
harm and I do not see any reason why the dust brought through
the house would injure anybody. I append a revised list of the
various courts and alleys with their present condition:—