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used as a dwelling house, 2 have been dealt with satisfactorily and reoccupied as
dwelling houses and the rest remained closed at the end of the year. With the
exception of the 11 which were under consideration at the end of the year the
remainder were dealt with to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Authority and no
further steps were therefore necessary under the Act.
ARTISANS' DWELLINGS.
The artisans' dwellings in the Borough were under observation throughout
the year, and their sanitary condition may be stated as being generally
satisfactory.
As in previous years they have been classed as A and B : A including those
occupied by persons in comfortable circumstances, and B those occupied by very
poor persons. During the year another block of dwellings with nine entrances
and containing 51 tenements, in Haberdasher Street, constructed for the Haberdashers'
Company, came into occupation. These dwellings are situate on the
north side of the street at the Pitfield Street end. Each of them possesses its
proper w.c. accommodation, water supply and bath, and is fitted with all modern
conveniences. They have been erected on the sites of houses which were
occupied by persons of the working class, and add to the improvement in the
neighbourhood effected by the block opened last year. As dwellings they are in
every respect most satisfactory.

Taking the figures in the above table, the number of rooms per tenement
averages 2.4 for both classes of dwellings, but the number of persons per room
for the Class A is approximately 1.3, as compared with 1.9 for Class B, which
may be taken as an indication of the more crowded condition of the Class B as
compared with the Class A dwellings.