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this distriot, and as the owner has carried out all my ordinary
sanitary requirements, I do not consider it necessary to report
against these houses. As to John's Place I agreed to let the
matter stand over until Spring, especially as the Board have
decided to apportion the Place and have it paved, which would
remove one source of the dusty and somewhat damp state of
these houses. Some of the top rooms have sloping roofs, and
are consequently low ; and as they have no fire.places, and the
other rooms are for the most part low, I am in doubt what
action to take. As there is, with one or two exceptions, in all
the — houses only one family in each, and as they are let at
3s. 6d. a week for the smaller houses, and 4s. 6d. for the
others, and especially as I could not ascertain from my inquiries
that disease and death were unusually prevalent therein, I feel
that I am justified in allowing the matter to stand over for the
present. I cannot say that I consider the houses in all respects
suitable for dwellings, but as there was no over.crowding, and
the occupants would otherwise have to live in Model Dwellings
or other houses, where they could afford to occupy only one room
instead of two or three, I shall give much more consideration
than I have yet done to this block of buildings before I
report them under these Acts.
Amongst the places which have been much improved by
the action I have taken, in addition to those mentioned, are
York Buildings, Stoke Newington Road, and Falcon Court and
Place, where the paving and drainage have been much improved,
the houses repaired and cleaned, and generally put into a better
sanitary condition than they were previously. I inspected also
some houses in Blackshaw Place, without finding much to
complain of. In Caroline Cottages there was not any water.
supply to the closets, the paving was bad and some of the houses
dirty. In Conduit Place and Cottages, although the rooms
were low and the paving imperfect, yet the houses were in
fair condition, and the inhabitants looked well and healthy.
Hammond's Cottages, Upper Dockside, were in fair order,