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Appendix C.
Bcport on Salutation Alley to Housing of Working Classes
Committee by the Medical Officer of Health.
Salutation Alley is a back court lying between Beresford
Street and some stables behind Powis Street.
It is approached by a single narrow passage.
It is blocked up at one end by a public house and a shop in
Beresford Square; at the opposite end it is closed by the
boundary fence of open ground belonging to the Drill Hall.
It contains 11 houses, and also the remains of three demolished
houses. Four of the houses contain 8 rooms each, being double
fronted, with a staircase on each side; one contains 4 rooms,
and six contain 2 rooms each (washhouse excluded), the smaller
houses being on the Beresford Street side of the Alley. Between
the six small houses and Beresford Street are five semidetached
houses fronting on Beresford Street, and having their
yards at the side of each house. These Beresford Street houses
each contain 4 small rooms, and a basement. Two of the side
yards are partly covered in, one being used as a shooting
gallery, and the other for cooking chipped potatoes.
The population of Salutation Alley is 67, and I find there
were 6 deaths in the three years 1898-1900 registered in the
Alley, and two of the inhabitants of the Alley in the Union
Infirmary; to this number I have added ½ as a proportionate
number of the deaths occurring in outlying institutions, making
a total of 8£ deaths. Two of these deaths were from phthisis.
This gives a death rate from all causes of 42.2, and a phthisis
death rate of 10'0. Thus the death rate appears to be more
than twice as high as the high rate for Woolwich parish, and the
phthisis death rate four times as high as in Woolwich parish.