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occupying light rooms is infinitely less as compared with, that in dark ones;
and that the influence of light, especially solar light, in preventing the fatal
termination of disease, is a fact well known to him.
In further illustration of this subject, Mr. Ward quotes a fact stated "
on the authority of Sir James Wylie,—" that the cases of disease on the
dark side of an extensive barrack at St. Petersburg, have been uniformly,
for many years, in the proportion of three to one, to those on the side
exposed to strong light."
Registered Common Lodging Houses.
In my last Quarterly Report I drew your attention to the overcrowded
condition of several of the Registered Common Lodging Houses in this
District. Since the date of that Report the Inspectors have visited several
others. The result of their inspection has been laid before Captain Harris,
the Commissioner of Police under whose authority these houses are placed,
and is recorded in a letter addressed to Captain Harris, of which the
following is a copy:—
Board of Works, Whitechapel District,
5th, April, 1876.
Dear Sir,
Since the 18th of January last, the date of my letter addressed to
Colonel Henderson, on the subject of the defective ventilation and overcrowding
of some of the Registered Common Lodging Houses in this District, the Sanitary
Inspectors have measured the several rooms of the under-mentioned houses, which
were not returned in my letter above mentioned.
Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 48, 56, and 56, Flower and
Dean Street.
Nos. 19 and 20, George Street, and 1, Wilson's Place.
Nos. 20, Green Dragon Yard, and 12, Princes Street.
Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20, 28, 29, and 30, Dorset Street.
Nos. 4, 5, and 6, Paternoster Row.
No. 7, George Street, 5, Frostic Court, and 57, Brick Lane.
In No 4, Flower and Dean Street, there are 2 rooms overcrowded ; at Nos. 6, 7,
and 8, there are 5 overcrowded; at No. 11, 4 overcrowded; at No. 12, 2 overcrowded
; at No. 13, 3 overcrowded; at No. 14, 2 overcrowded; at Nos. 15 and 16,
6 overcrowded; at No. 19, 3 overcrowded; at No. 48, 5 overcrowded; at No. 55, 4
overcrowded; and at No. 56, 5 overcrowded. Total 41.
At Nos. 19 and 20, George Street, there are 6 rooms overcrowded; at No. 1,
Wilson's Place, 2 rooms overcrowded; at No. 20, Green Dragon Yard, 1 room overcrowded
; at No. 12, Princes Street, 4 rooms overcrowded; at Nos. 9 and 10, Dorset
Street, 1 room overcrowded; at Nos. 11 and 12, Dorset Street, 7 rooms overcrowded;
at Nos. 16 and 17, Dorset Street, 3 rooms overcrowded; at Nos. 19 and 20, Dorset
Street, 5 rooms overcrowded; at No. 28, Dorset Street, 3 rooms overcrowded; at No.
29, Dorset Street, 2 rooms overcrowded; at No. 30, Dorset Street, 3 rooms overcrowded;
at No. 4, Paternoster Row, 1 room overcrowded; at No. 5, Paternoster
Row, 1 room overcrowded; at No. 6, Paternoster Row, 4 rooms overcrowded; at No.
7, Gun Street, 3 rooms overcrowded. Total 46.