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County Council will not be acting in the best
interests of the Ratepayers if they determine to
erect dwellings for the poor, which should be the
work of private enterprise; and a reply was
forwarded, stating the action already taken by the
Vestry in the matter.
Artizan's Dwellings Acts, 1868-82.—During the
year the Vestry took proceedings under these Acts
in the following cases:—
33*, White Lion Street.—The Medical Officer,
on the 23rd May, certified that these premises (a
stable and woodshed) were unfit for human habitation,
and his representation was referred to the
Surveyor, who reported that the premises consisted
on the first floor of one room, 13-ft. 2-in. by 13-ft.
by 9-ft. high, occupied by three persons, man, wife,
and boy aged 13 years ; and on the ground floor
one room, 13-ft. 2-in. by 13-ft. by 9-ft. 7-in. high,
used as a wood chopping shed and donkey's stable,
and that there is a small yard in rear, common to
these premises and No. 34A, White Lion Street,
with one w.c., also common to the two houses;
that the premises appear to have been let as a stable
to the occupier, and were in such a defective and
dilapidated condition that no amount of structural
alterations could possibly make them fit for human
habitation, and he recommended that an order be
made for closing same.
The Vestry thereupon made an Order in accordance
with the Surveyor's representation, and such
use of the premises was shortly afterwards discontinued,
and the place used only as workshops.
41, Collier Street. — In October the Medical
Officer of Health represented that these premises
were in a condition dangerous to health so as to be
unfit for human habitation. The representation
being referred to the Surveyor, he reported that the
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