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be, there need to be additional lodging-house
accomodation for 7,000 people. In order that you
may form an idea of the work necessary to be
done to accomodate such a number of people,
I would call your attention to the Ingestre
Buildings which will lodge about 300 people. A
building or buildings that will lodge twenty-three
times this number of people must be provided,
if the population of this Parish is to remain the
same, and its health secured.
There are many spots in the Parish where such
lodging houses might be eligibly built. Nearly
every court in the Parish is overcrowded, and a
gigantic nuisance, injurious to health. Smith's
Court, Tyler's Court, William and Mary Yard,
Crown Court, Great Crown Court, Heddon Street,
Market Street, and many spots in Berwick Street,
Marshall Street, Silver Street, Brewer Street, and
Great and Little Windmill Streets, offer admirable
sites for such buildings.
In the construction of such lodging houses, the
wretched domiciles which now minister to the poor,
the indolent, the vicious and the criminal classes
would be abolished. Instead of a diseased and
destitute population preying on the rates, you would
have one that would contribute to the rates. The