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of the Act there will be implied a condition that "the house
is at the commencement of the holding in all respects reasonably
fit for human habitation." Also under Section 15 the
condition stated above shall "during the holding be kept by
the landlord in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation,"
so that with every succeeding year it appears that this
section will have an increasing effect, and require more
attention.
This district is well supplied with houses of a certain
type, but there are very few under 7s. 6d. a week with
accommodation for one family. The result is that two or
three families occupy a house that was built for one, and
where the accommodation is unsuitable. The more the
district grows, and the older smaller cottages are pulled
down, the more this evil tends to grow. There is a very
real need for cottages for men earning 30s. a week or
under, at a rental they can afford to pay, say 5s. a week, or
thereabouts.
SEWERAGE AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
As the district grows and extensions of the sewers take
place, more and more of the outlying cottages become connected
to the sewers A new sewer has been laid down
Goodmayes Lane and along Longbridge Road during the
year, which will enable a house to be connected to this sewer
that has given rise to good deal of nuisance, owing to its
not having sufficient ground to deal with its own waste, with
a result that the neighbouring ditch becomes very foul. At
the present time the district has an almost universal system
of water carriage in use, but in the outlying portions of the
area there are:—
Number of cesspools 55
„ „ privies 42
„ „ pail closets 64