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The wage-earners occupying the houses are employed at
the neighbouring coal wharves, docks, river, the Arsenal,
and other places.
The chief part of the area forms a square which is
Continuously built round on three sides in Market Hill, High
Street, and Globe Lane, but open to some extent in New
Street.
The High Street flats were built about 1890, but the other
houses are all old and to a large extent dilapidated.
The flats are very badly arranged. They have very long
back additions causing the back rooms to be exceedingly,
dark. Exoept the basement flats, none of them have proper
provision of back yards, the back yard provided being about
six feet square and so arranged as to make the kitchen and
w.e. dark. There is thus no satisfactory provision for drying
grounds or playgrounds for these houses.
The houses are provided with dust-shoots which open into
receptacles in the basement yards.
All the internal passages of the flats are dark owing to
the arrangement of the houses.
The back rooms are all dark for the reasons above given.
In the front the rooms of the two lower flats are dark
owing to the narrowness of High Street, but the upper rooms
are well lighted.
Owing to the square above described being enclosed on
three sides, there is no proper access of air to several of
the houses.
Most of the houses have basements, the occupation of