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The Vestry, on 19th April, 1898, upon the recommendation of the Sanitary Committee,
passed the following resolution:—
That to obviate the necessity of acquiring additional land and increasing the cost of
carrying the scheme into execution, the block system of tenement dwellings be adopted and
the Surveyor instructed to prepare a plan in accordance therewith and submit the same to
the Committee when ready.
On 21st June, 1898, the Sanitary Committee reported having considered the plan prepared
by the Surveyor for covering the area with model dwellings, and the following report
accompanying such plan:—
As instructed, I beg to submit a plan for the erection of Working Class Dwellings upon
the Fulford Street and Braddon Street insanitary area.
The buildings to be erected in the form of a quadrangle formed by the streets bounding
the area; to be four floors in height and divided by party walls into ten separate dwellings,
the frontages varying from 85 feet to 60 feet and 36 feet in depth, outside measurements.
They are so arranged as to admit of a free circulation of air around them.
There are four entrances to the quadrangle, two for vehicular traffic and two for pedestrians
only.
Each dwelling has a separate entrance from the quadrangle and common staircase, giving
access to the corridors and tenements right and left.

The four-roomed tenements are arranged as a living room 13 feet by 12 feet, one bedroom
13 feet by 8 feet, and two bedrooms 12 feet 6 inches by 8 feet, each of the bedrooms being private
and entered from the living room or passage.