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APPENDIX.
houses are similar, all are let in tenements, and there is no business
establishment in the court. Each house has a small back yard, in
which the water supply and closet are situated. The houses on the
north side are somewhat better than those on the south, but both
sets are in an area too overbuilt to afford sufficient air.
Granby Place is entered by an archway 8 feet wide and 35 long.
At the eastern end a small passage leads to White Horse Yard, it is
therefore in some degree a thoroughfare. The light is poor. Fortytwo
out of the forty-eight families live in one room. The height
of most of the rooms in the top floors is rarely above 7½ feet, Nos. 5
and 6 are 6½. Practically there is no back ventilation in any of the
houses. All the yards are very small, mere wells, and the water
supply, etc., are necessarily much cramped.
White Horse Yard (250 feet long, 10 to 12 broad) is undoubtedly
the worst part of this sub-area, in regard to structural conditions.
The court is a thoroughfare between Stanhope Street and Drury Lane,
and is entered at the latter end by an arch 8 feet wide The
houses are with only one or two exceptions, much dilapidated, and
have no back ventilation. The stairs are dark and narrow. The
closet and drinking water arrangements are situated in the cellars
and are deficient. The ground floor of most of the houses is used as
a shop and storeroom. Nos. 3, 6, 16, 17, 18 and 21 are already
closed. Nos. 14 and 15 form a registered lodging house for women
(81 inmates). Nos. 11 and 12 (now unlet) are used solely for business
purposes. Of the 66 families, 55 live in one-room dwellings.
Clare Court (200 feet long and 13 broad) is not a through passage,
though it has two narrow passages for exit, the one into White Horse
Yard, a covered passage 3 feet 8 inches broad, the other into Blackmoor
Street, 5 feet 4 inches wide. The houses are practically
without means for through ventilation. Nos. 9 and 10 are warehouses,
and a Salvation Army station is situated at the corner of the
passage into Blackmoor Street.
Half Moon Court was in old days a garden at the back of some
of the houses in Stanhope Street. Since then it opened into Harford
Place and so formed a connection between Stanhope Street and
Drury Lane. Eventually it was closed as a thoroughfare and has
been for some time a small cul de sac containing three houses, one of