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The very high mortality is not likely to be reduced
by further house improvements, inasmuch as
Landlords have been doing their best, and have been
terribly punished by the expense of sanitary orders
for maintaining these houses in a proper state.
Further works for house improvements are almost
beyond their power; nor is that likely to lessen
the high rate of mortality of people living under
these conditions.
3. The Hall Park estate, built with streets and
houses within the last 15 years, stands much in the
same relation to density of population and breathing
space. This area includes 7½ acres of ground,
having a population of 3643 persons, 303 houses—
40 houses and 486 persons to the acre ; 12 persons
on the average to each house.
4. Courts on the north side of Harrow Road
covering a space of half an acre, have 38 small
cottages, with a population of 216 persons; some
rooms are very small and are inhabited by an
entire family. Some of these tenements have been
condemned as unlit for human habitation, and it is
hoped that the Harrow Road improvements will
demolish the whole of them.
In the Appendix will be found statistical details
showing the rate of mortality, and the principal
causes and ages of death in other streets and places
similarly circumstanced to these, also in the large
houses and mansions in streets and squares inhabited
by the wealthy class—so that the advantages
of higher civilization upon health and longevity
may be easily seen.