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houses have been built and estates laid out with little
reference to other considerations than those of transit.
By the good fortune of its recent growth and the
operation of the building bye-laws modern houses
complying for the most part with current notions of
sanitary equipment have been erected, but the streets
have arranged themselves at the discretion of the
landowners who have laid out their estates not
unnaturally in the circumstances with a view to the
maximum advantage of their particular holdings
rather than by concerted plan to the harmonious
development of the district as a whole.
As a result estates laid out clearly with the object
of housing a residential population have so far as their
original purpose is concerned, in course of time been
blighted by the discordant ambitions of adjoining
owners.
Houses constructed for one class of occupiers
who appear perpetually to be tieeing the results of
this disjointedness of purpose, thus come to be
occupied by another to whose needs they are as ill