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Health Act, and certain improvements carried out. In 23
houses the principal defects were want of proper light and
ventilation (13 being back to back houses) and in the remainder,
dilapidations were most marked.
22. I also represented the area comprising Salutation Alley
and 1 to 5, Beresford Street, containing 16 houses, as a proper
area to be dealt with under Section 39 of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, on account of the bad arrangement and
condition of the buildings, and the want of light and ventilation.
The death rate of this area was 42 2 per 1000, and the Phthisis
death rate 10.0, both rates being vastly in excess of the rate
for the Borough.
23. Building Schemes.—Plans have been prepared for
building 25 houses at North Woolwich, and building operations
will be shortly commenced. The houses will be all selfcontained,
comprising living room, two or three bedrooms and
scullery, the latter being available for cooking during the
summer months, and containing a bath, copper, cooking stove
and larder.
A large scheme for building 1,000 houses at Eltham is at
present in abeyance. The provision of new and sanitary
houses at reasonable rents is the greatest desideratum of the
day from a sanitary point of view.
Houses Registered Under the Bye-laws for Houses
let in Lodgings.
24. Registration.—At the beginning of the year there were
88 houses registered under the Bye-laws, 65 being in Woolwich
Parish, and 23 in Plumstead. During the year I recommended
the registration of 49 houses. After the various processes of