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Cleansing and scavenging of the court depends on the goodwill and energies
of the occupants, and the drain gullies do not appear to be cleansed unless they
become choked and flood.
To sum up, these dwellings are back-to-back, badly situated, aged, ill-planned,
ill-ventilated and lighted, damp and lack any sort of domestic comfort or satisfactory
sanitary conveniences. Viewed in the light of only reasonable modern
conditions, these cottages should have long since been demolished.
The photographs numbered 27, 28, 29 and 30, will convey some impression,
most inadequate, I am sorry to say, of the real badness of these dwellings.
SMALL DWELLINGS ACQUISITION ACTS, 1899-1923.
The total cases where advances have been made by the Borough Council to
31st December, 1930, amount to 329, of which 50 were granted during the year.