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An immense improvement has taken place by the removal of
unfit dwellings and the re-constitution of others in, Paget,
17,781.
Demolitions for the Clerkenwell road took place partly under
Torrens' Act, Paget, 17,782.
Torrens' Act was put in force in 1869 in, and some demolitions
and re-building took place, Paget, 17,782.
Courts in, would have been dealt with under Torrens' Act, had
it not been intended to sweep them away for Clerkenwell road,
Paget, 17,782.
Every attention was given to the sanitary condition of courts in,
pending their removal, Paget, 17,782.
The misery among the poor would have been increased by
blindly applying Torrens' Act, during the exceptional demolitions
for the Clerkenwell road, Paget, 17,786.
Several sites are being dealt with under Torrens' Act as amended
in 1882, Paget, 17,787.
Mr. McCullagh Torrens has never interfered personally with
the working of his Acts in, Paget, 17,802.
Mr. McCullagh Torrens four or live years ago with the vicar's
assistance inquired into the condition of things in, Paget,
17,803.
It is not true the vicar has shown entire indifference to the
condition of the people, Paget, 17,804, 17,805.
The vicar has not shirked the duty of investigating the condition
of the people, Paget, 17,804, 17,805.
Does not believe any clergyman in, would refuse his assistance
to the vestry if asked, Paget, 17,806-17,808.
Beginning with Lord Northampton, there are four or five very
large property owners in, Paget, 17,809.
Large property owners are as much responsible for neglect in,
as small owners, Paget, 17,810.
Numbers of houses formerly occupied by one family have since
been let by large owners to those who make a trade of subletting,
Paget, 17,811.
Large owners or their agents must know when lessees make a
trade of sub-letting, Paget, 17,812.
Where houses have been re-leased for sub-letting purposes each
one has charged the cost of a new lease to the individual
lessee, Paget, 17,813.
Respectable families and employers have been refused renewal
of leases in order to let the houses to middlemen, Paget, 17,814.
Is so much the poorer by middle class people leaving through
being refused renewal of leases, Paget, 17,815, 17,816.