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the injurious conditions, and the owners decided to pull
their houses down. Some of the owners have constructed
new dwelling-s on the site of the old.
NORFOLK GARDENS, owing to their injurious condition, have
many times been brought under the notice of the Vestry ;
many sanitary notices have been served, resulting in the
owner cleansing and repairing them, but not durably. About
four years ago these dwellings were in a very dirty and
dilapidated condition, consequently legal proceedings, under
the Nuisances Removal Act, were instituted against the
owner and a magistrate's order obtained directing the
houses to be thoroughly cleansed and repaired, and new
drains constructed; and the Vestry ordered six of the
houses to be closed, and they were closed in consequence
of their extremely dilapidated condition.
Finding after these proceedings that the houses continued
in an injurious condition, dirty, dilapidated, and
without proper sanitary appliances, the owner was informed
that action would be taken under the Artizans' Dwellings
Improvement Act (Torrens), and a Surveyor appointed to
examine and report what was requisite to make and keep
the dwellings fit for habitation. Learning this the owner
sold the property; it passed into the possession of several
owners, one of whom pulled down his newly-purchased
houses. One owner allowed his houses to pass into an
exceedingly dilapidated and unclean condition, and large
cesspools were discovered in the rear of several.
The Vestry finding that the sanitary notices served were
not executed, directed the premises to be entered on, the
cesspools abolished, and proper drains and closets constructed.
And this was done, and the dwellings themselves
subsequently improved.
In recalling the proceedings adopted from time to
time by the Vestry, to compel the owner to
improve these dwellings, I cannot but feel impressed