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if taken separately, show a much higher density
of population, and such as in my opinion ought not
to have been tolerated under a wise municipal
policy. The following are examples:—
1. A space of ground each side of the Harrow
Road, leading to the Lock Bridge, bounded on
the north by the Grand Junction Canal, on the
west by the Great Western Railway premises,
on the east by Ranelagh Road, and south by
Westbourne Terrace North and Desboro' Terrace
covers a space of about 25 acres. It has almost
all been built upon within the last 15 or 20 years.
The streets are 40 feet wide, houses 4 stories high,
basement is mostly under the street level; the area
in front and back yards behind, are of the smallest
possible size Here are 900 houses packed
with 12,000 people ; 35 houses and 469.7 persons to
the acre ; averaging 14 to 24 in each house ; nearly
half the population consisting of children and young
persons.
2. In the Harrow Road also, near Paddington
Green, another space of ground consisting of about
6 acres, bounded south by the North Wharf Road
and the Canal Basin and Wharves, east by Green
Street, and north by the Harrow Road, are 275
houses ; 45.8 houses to the acre ; 10.7 persons to
each house,and 493.8 persons to one acre. The small
houses in Dudley Street are all let out in tenements,
some having but 4 rooms, and each let out to a
family ; they are princely in comparison with places
I could name in many parts of the metropolis,