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Central Street, and is in the occupation of a bookbinder as a
work-place. Thirty-three persons are employed on the premises,
of whom eighteen are males and fifteen are females. There is
separate W.C. accommodation for the sexes. There is no yard,
consequently the W.C.'s (three) are within the premises.
No. 4, Mitchell Street, is a dwelling house containing 8 rooms.
There is a yard in which the W.C. is situated. The house is
used for living purposes only, and is occupied by eight adults and
three children.
The total number of persons occupying the Central Street area
is 125. The deaths during five years numbered twenty-one,
being equal to 33.6 per 1,000 per annum of the persons living.
Children under five formed 33.3 per cent. of the said deaths.
Phthisis death-rate was equal to 4 per cent. Seven cases of
infectious disease were reported and thirty-nine sanitary complaints
were made during the period in question.
Bast wick Street area includes the houses from Nos. 13 to 38
on the north side of that thoroughfare. It is regarded as insanitary
by reason of the narrowness of the street and the greater height
of the houses on its south side, and at the rear are situated an
iron founder's factory and lead Merchant's premises. The
houses contain from three to nine rooms; they are old and somewhat
dilapidated; they accommodate three or four families each.
They have back yards and W.C.'s to each, except in one
instance, where there is one yard and W.C. for two houses.
There are back windows to all. Where there are cellars they
are unused Some of the houses are registered.
The number of persons occupying the houses in question is
275. There have been thirty-eight deaths in them during the
past five years, equal to 29.9 per 1,000 per annum; 52.6 per
cent. of the deaths occurred to children five years of age and
under. The phthisis death rate was 36.8 per cent.
There have been twenty five notifications of infectious disease
in five years, being equal to 9 per cent. of the population. The
number of sanitary complaints during the same period has been
151 for these houses.