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APPENDIX. XIII
which was last year converted for business purposes. The other two
were in every way unfit for habitation and were closed for that
reason on January 14th, 1896. The court is entered by a covered
passage 2 feet 10 inches wide.
JEversley Buildings are structurally good. They are, however,
placed in such a position that they are hemmed in on every side by
other buildings. They are approached by a narrow covered passage
(3 ft. wide) under No. 30, Stanhope Street. There is an open space
front, back, and at one end, about 10 feet wide, but this is curtailed
in front by overhanging balconies. The end of the yard is blocked
up by the houses in Harford Place, and the front of the buildings
is overshadowed by the walls of the tannery. The half of the
buildings next Stanhope Street are thus extremely dark, as are also
the ground floor rooms in the west half. The building consists of
five floors, with 20 single and 24 double tenements.
The Sub-area B includes both sides of Holies Street, the south side
of Clare Street and one house in Clare Market and three in Stanhope
Street. The general characteristics of the sub area are similar to
the neighbouring Sub-area A, but are perhaps more acute. Of the
twenty-seven houses in Holies Street (250 feet long and 30 feet broad)
nine are already closed and one is exclusively used for trade purposes.
In the remaining seventeen, 309 people live. All the houses are
poor, worn out and dilapidated; some have yards and slight back
ventilation, but in others even this is absent.
Clare Street is a "market" street. All the eleven houses are
devoted to business on the ground floor. The population is 164,
of which half live in single rooms. The houses are back to back
with those on the north side of Holies Street, and the fresh air and
light are very little.
The third Sub-area C comprises seven courts at the back of the
Strand, lying between the Strand on the south and White Hart
Street on the north, and bounded on the west by Angel Court and
on the east by Drury Lane and Drury Court. It includes more than
60 houses and a total population of 841.
Drury Court is a direct continuation of the Lane towards the
Strand. The houses are old, dilapidated and out of repair, with the
drinking water and closets in immediate proximity to each other.