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Fact: Not more than 9 in any house (No. 6), and this not
overcrowded by measurement; 4 rooms.
8. Statement.—5, Bolton Court, 10 persons occupy 2 small
rooms; Court closed.
9. Statement.—36, Bowling Green Lane, (Mr. Griffiths) 6
persons in an underground kitchen.
Fact: A family of man, wife, and 4 children, aged 11, 9,
6 years, and 2 months, occupy 2 kitchens, not 1; the front
kitchen is well cleared out; there is no overcrowding as
regards cubic capacity; the back kitchen is not underground.
10. Statement.—7, New Court, 11 persons in 2 rooms, in
which fowls were also kept.
Fact: There is no New Court in Clerkenwell, although
there are several in other parishes; but we have a Court
called New Buildings, in Margaret Street; No. 7 in this
Court, a 2-roomed house, is occupied by man, wife, and 2
children; No fowls are, or ever have been kept in this house.
11. Statement.—In Swan Alley, in an old, partly wooden and
decayed house, there were 17 persons inhabiting 3 rooms.
There is no such place in Clerkenwell.
The last two statements must refer to some other parish,
12. Statement.—York Place, York Street, (Mr. Jennings) 5
houses with 2 rooms and a small kitchen; the walls were damp,
the paper hanging in shreds; no back yards, and no back
ventilation. (These last named defects are among the most
mischievous evils attached to poor dwellings in populous neighbourhoods).
The court outside was all in holes; the drain or
sink which should carry off the wet, was upon the highest part
of the ground, instead of upon the lowest, so that of course, the
water laid in pools all about the place ; no washhouses.
Fact: There is no York Place in Clerkenwell; the term was
formerly applied to some houses on the South side of the
Pentonville Road; near the turnpike. But I have no doubt