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in some of these houses are very low, but as only one family
occupies each house, and the houses were much improved by the
works done, I did not consider it to be my duty to report these
as uninhabitable dwellings. As regards Nos. 11 to 25, Triangle
Cottages, Morning Lane (odd numbers only), I found them
n a dirty and somewhat dilapidated state, requiring considerable
structural alterations. After communicating with and
seeing the owner, he directed the improvements I required to be
carried out, which has now been done in a satisfactory manner.
There was much more difficulty as regards Fox's Cottages, in
Morning Lane and in Albion Road, as they were low; many of
them damp ; the roofs bad; and the walls and ceilings dirty.
As each was occupied by one family only, and the owner decided
on repairing them, and as the inhabitants were generally in good
health, I concluded for the present that I am not required to
report them under the Artizans Dwellings Acts. Some houses
in High Street, Homerton, Nos. 25, 27, 29 & 31, were not only
in a dirty and dilapidated state, and the attics very low
and badly ventilated, so that I should have reported them as
being unfit for habitation if the owners had not closed the attics,
and done some repairs to the other parts of the houses. If these
houses should not be pulled down shortly, I shall have to take
further action. In Plough Lane there were some houses in a
bad state, but as they did not come within the provisions of these
Acts they were dealt with under the Nuisances Removal Acts.
The same may be said of Pickles Buildings and Tryon's Court,
and I have now to report that all these houses are in a much
better sanitary condition than when I visited them in 1883.
Two of the most difficult places in which to arrive at a decision
are John's Place, Well Street, and Jerusalem Gardens. In
both of these the houses are small and the rooms low, but as
regards the latter, as there has not been any deaths so far
as I know from zymotic diseases for some years, and as the
annual death.rate for the last four years has been rather lower
than amongst persons in a similar position of life in other parts of