View report page

8
other cases just referred to, you have no authority to
prevent them. I will only further say, that this voluntary
injury to health causes great and premature mortality,
and is probably the means of occupying one-half
the room in our hospitals.
New Buildings.
Mr, Legg, the District Surveyor to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, has kindly supplied me with the following
return of the number and nature of the new
buildings erected in the Hamlet during the year ending
March, 1873.
New dwelling-houses 104
School buildings, for
Congregational Chapel, Burdett Road 1
Jews, Stepney Green 1
St. Paul's Road, Bow Common 1
London School Board:
School, Johnson Street, Centre Ward 1
Ditto, Gloucester Street 1
Iron Chapel, Carlton Square 1
Total 110
The number of new dwellings is an increase of 7
upon that of the previous year. Most of the open
spaces in the Hamlet are now built upon; but I fear
this increase of the number of houses only adds to the
population, without relieving the congestion in our
crowded parts.
One evil result is certain, the children are driven from
their only play-grounds into close, ill-ventilated houses
or crowded streets, and less frequently to the School
Board Schools.
It is a serious defect that all these Schools are not
provided with ample play-grounds. If the School
Board has the power to do so, it should be urged upon