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Housing of the Working Classes.
27. The following 10 houses were represented as unfit for
habitation under Sect. 32, Part IT. of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act:—
Three houses in the rear of the "Army Beer House,"
Artillery Place;
No. 1, Campbell Cottages, Nightingale Vale ;
11, Market Hill;
1, Beresford Street;
2, Globe Lane;
5, Globe Lane;
2 & 3, Lewis Place.
In the first four mentioned the sanitary defects consisted
mainly of dilapidations, dampness, and want of through
ventilation; in the remainder the principal defects were want
of light and insanitary basements.
A Magistrate's Order was obtained for closing the houses
behind the "Army Beer House," with £3 7s. Od. costs and 10/compensation
to each tenant. 1, Campbell Cottages, 11, Market
Hill, and 2 and 5, Globe Lane, were also put in a more sanitary
condition by the owner on service of notice, the basement room
being closed in one case, and the light being improved in the
others. Proceedings were taken under the Public Health
(London) Act for 1, Beresford Street, and the light improved
by Magistrate's Order (28/- costs). As regards 2 and 3, Lewis
Place, Form "A" under the Housing Act was served and the
case adjourned on an undertaking to do the work required.
28. New Street and Globe Lane. I reported in October
with respect to these two insanitary streets. The death-rate
based on the census population of 197 (Globe Lane, 132 and
New Street, 65) in the period January, 1900, to September,
1902 (16 deaths) was 29.5 per annum per 1,000 population, or