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surrounded the forecourts—and paved the entire space with
cement concrete, and thrown it open to the public—it now forms,
with the well paved footway of Norfolk Gardens, an excellent
playground for the little children of this crowded place.
1 to 6, NELSON'S PLACE, MOYE STREET, HAGGERSTONE.—
Are two roomed houses, they were extremely damp,
dilapidated, and foul.
Under notices served, the yards and water closets have been
paved and re-constructed in a superior manner—water laid on
to the closets, and water given direct from the main. New
floors and hearths laid and an improved public dust bin built.
In addition to these improvements, acting on my
recommendation, the owner has removed the whole of the
dilapidated wood fencing that surrounded the dirty unpaved
and undrained forecourts, and paved the whole area of the
court, with cement concrete. This is a great boon to the poor
people living there, not merely as preventing the walls of their
houses standing in a swamp, as formerly—but in promoting a
measure of cleanliness in their houses, that was previously
impossible, when every footstep left traces of the miry ground
of the yards and forecourts.
Not only is cause of damp removed by the paving referred
to, and cleanly habits engendered, but (as in Norfolk Gardens)
an excellent playground is provided for children.
GRANVILLE BUILDINGS, 106, Suites of Apartments—These
Model Dwellings were reported in the Annual Report of
1877, as having been in a very injurious condition, water
for drinking purposes being stored in cisterns placed immediately
over the water closets of apartments to which they belonged, and
immediately under the water closets of the apartment above,
with no effectual cover to prevent water or excreta which might
overflow the closet pan above, from polluting the drinking water
below—and there was evidence that such pollution had taken
place largely.