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viz., 1 to 8, Cottage Place; 3, Betterton Street; 16, Queen
Street; 11, 13, 15 and 17, Sardinia Place. He also reported
that the building situate at the rear of No. 46, Kenton
Street, although not in itself unfit for human habitation was
jet so situated as to obstruct ventilation and otherwise conduce
to make the premises Nos. 1 to 8 Cottage Place unfit
for human habitation and he recommended that it should be
demolished. The Board having referred the Reports to their
Engineer and Surveyor and his Reports having been received
the Board ordered that the premises, No. 3, Betterton
Street should be demolished and that the other premises
should be repaired.
With regard to the obstructive building in the rear of
No. 46, Kenton Street, the owners of the property the
Foundling Hospital intimated that the premises, Nos. 1 to
8, Cottage Place had been erected without their knowledge
and without their sanction and that they were prepared to
demolish them and this having been done the Building
in tlie rear of No. 46, Kenton Street was no longer "obstructive
" and no action was therefore taken with respect to the
same.
The works to the houses in Sardinia Place were carried
out, but nothing was done by the Owner with regard to No.
] 6, Queen Street, and the Board were therefore compelled
to take steps to close the same.
Artizan's Dwellings Acts, 1875 to 1885.
THE SIIELTON STREET AREA.
The work of demolishing the premises on the above area
has been proceeded with during past year but no steps have
yet been taken by the London County Council for re-housing
the inhabitants who were dispossessed.