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many children is fast becoming an impossibility, and
not without reason, for the most destructive part of our
population is the juvenile ; they set no value on closet
doors, windows, water-butts anil cistcrns, they destroy
more and necessitate more repairs than all the rest of
the community.
When we look at some of our worst courts, it does
seem probable, that if the present old and ill-contrivcd
houses were removed and replaced by others better
planned and arranged, with fewer staircascs, larger and
more convenient rooms, that the primary expenditure
would lie met with a sufficiently increased amount of
rent. Brewer's Court seems a very likely place for
such au experiment, which I caunot help thinking, if
judiciously carried out, would be remunerative to the
proprietor, and a great boon to our working population.
There can lxr no doubt that the death-rate of the
Metropolis will be much diminished when the closebuilt
courts arc replaced by modern improvements.
In conscqucnce of the demolition of so many houses
in St. Clement's Danes for the building of the Law
Courts, the population of Bedfordbury and its purlieus
has been very much increased, certainly without being
improved. The yards and staircases are frequently in
a very bad state, and require the utmost vigilance
of our energetic Inspector to have them kept in any
decent state.
K