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" FACTORIES."
Messrs. DE LA RUE'S (Luke Street).
Two troughs have been removed used by not less than 150 females
Two do. do. do 150 males
New arrangements provided are as follows:—
Twelve water closets of the Shoreditch pattern have been fitted up for females.
Eight do. do. do. do. males.
Proper and sufficient urinal accommodation has also been provided.
Messrs. WATERLOW'S (Skinner Street).
Three troughs have been removed used by not less than 200 males
New arrangements provided are as follows:—
Ten water closets of the Shoreditch pattern have been fitted up.
FOUNDRY PLACE.
The above place consists of eighteen six-roomed houses, nine on the west and
nine on the east, with a paved footway between, they have all been built within the
last 25 years on the site of small old ruinous cottages. In constructing them a great
mistake was made in building workshops in the small yards at the back of the houses
on the west side ; and in management a further mistake was made in letting all the
houses in tenements. As a result of these mistakes the houses on the west side
being overshadowed by the workshops were very gloomy, and all of them being let in
tenements, they were fast degenerating into a very slum-like condition.
Notices were served requiring the ordinary cleaning and repairs to be effected
and it was intimated that the houses would be registered under the regulations made
for tenement houses, and that was all that could be accomplished under the powers
of the Public Health Act, but the owner having had 25 years' experience of bad construction
and mismanagement, was somewhat prepared to listen to suggestions, which
could not be enforced at law. That being so, he was advised to eject all the
tenement holders, to take down and cart away the whole of the workshops at the back of
the houses on the west side, giving thereby a decent open yard to each house accompanied
with an entire reconstruction of w.c.'s and drainage, to thoroughly cleanse and
renovate walls and ceilings and internal fittings, all of which had suffered greatly at
the hands of destructive tenants, to provide wide concrete cills to front doors after
the Shoreditch pattern, and to let each house to one respectable responsible tenant.
All this has been done in a very complete and satisfactory manner.
The improvements effected stand as a model and an encouragement to owners
to deal with such troublesome bad property in a comprehensive manner.
ALMA MUSIC HALL.
A memorial from the inhabitants of the adjoining houses having been received,
complaining of the commission of nuisances by persons (male and female) attending