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17,605. They are partly owned by Mr, Ball, and partly by Mr
Martin, are they not?— Partly by Mr. Ball, partly by Mr.
Martin, perhaps, and partly by somebody else some distance
away.
17,606. Do you know the property owned by Mr. Henry Hill
whom I mentioned just now in the courts out of Smith Street?
—No, I cannot say I do. I know both Mr. Henry Hill and Mr.
Martin too as very respectable people.
17,607. Mr. Henry Hill has property in Northampton Street,
has he not ?— I think he has.
17,608. One of the school board visitors was asked with regard
to Northampton Street at question 1414: "In one of the houses
"in that street have you found a family of nine persons living
"in one room?" She replies in the affirmative, and speaks of
the bad condition of that property, and states that that particular
house belonged to Mr. Hill, a member of the Vestry?— It might
be; I cannot say. Again, did that school board visitor come
or send and lodge a complaint at the Vestry Hall of the existence
of overcrowding? If so, it would have been remedied at
once. As a matter of fact we have exceedingly few intimations
given us from other sources than our own staff of the existence
of either overcrowding, or nuisances, or defects of any kind.
17,609. Do you know the sisters who work in St. Luke's, in
St. Mary's, Charterhouse, on that side of your parish under Mr.
Dawes ?— No.
17,610. You do not remember their making a representation
to you?— No. I know some sisters who occupy some premises
in Lloyd Square, called " the Retreat." They once called my
attention to some sanitary defect or overcrowding in a mission
house or somewhere where they were in the habit of visiting in
Easton Street or Easton Place, and I immediately caused that to
be examined and looked into, and one committee visited the
place from house to house.
17,611. That is the only representation from them that you
remember?— That is the only one that I remember, and there
it was found that it was the people's own fault that there was
anything to complain of.
17,612. Do you know Mr. Coker's property on Clerkenwell
Green ?— Yes.
17,613. Do you know some houses there, the bottom parts of
which are used for workshops, and the top rooms of which are
very much crowded ?— No, 1 do not.
17,614. The houses are in a very bad state of repair, are
they not ?— I do not know.