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As however all the persons but two eventually did the necessary
works, five of the Licences were granted on the adjourned day.
There were fewer cases of iudecent overcrowding discovered
this year than last, although some of them were very bad. For
instance, in one room in the Templar Road the inspector found
the father, mother, two grown up daughters, and a son aged
fifteen, living and sleeping in one small room; in a small room
in Tottenham Square the father, mother, a grown up daughter
and two young children slept in one bed; in one room of a
house in Wharf Road, not large enough for two grown up
persons, there slept the father, mother, a son of twenty, a
daughter of seventeen, and a boy and girl under ten years. A
worse case came undpr our notice in Cottage Place, Well Street,
where the father, mother, eight children, a grown up unmarried
daughter who was in the family way, and a young man lodger,
lived and slept in one room : Small Pox broke out in the family,
spread to the young man and caused his death. At Frederick
Terrace, Stonebridge Common, we found occupying a room,
which was only large enough for two grown up persons and one
child, the father, mother, two grown up daughters, and two
girls under twelve years. Another bad case occurred in
George Street near the London Fields, where the father and
four daughters occupied only one room and one bed, their ages
being seventeen, fifteen, twelve and nine years of age. In a
lodging house consisting of four small rooms only, we found
four families and several young coloured men lodgers, the total
number of inmates being seventeen. The inspector found one
room in the Blackstone Road occupied as a living and sleeping
room by a man, his wife, an unmarried female lodger, and two
children; and in another room in West Street, the father,
mother, a girl of sixteen, a boy of thirteen, and four girls under
twelve years of age. There were discovered altogether no less