CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880 — Page 327

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bed', and underneath each bed a pigsty containing prose five to frigo, the occupant of the honce having a Government Licence to keep pugs and having us other plane to keep them.

Attached to this report. I cand eight Licences by the authority of which the recupants of the -house kept pingo under their beds, and two other when the -pige, a tough not kept under the beds, were in the same room the people clept and lived in I could send many

others.

& your

The construction of this clars of houers is against every- sanitay rule as regards drainage, ventilation and cleanliness, which is rendered impossible to the inhabitanto chia will eavily understand by what I chall show yon, many houses being built back to back have

gards, harving only windows on front, there is

through them.

air

nothing

no

to promote a current of

- gully exists

a gard

Reward

in other's which are not built back to back, no gard is provided but a narrow, between. The backs of the two sets of houses about a wide not used for passengers but down which an open existo in which font and fatios matter lies in pools or slowly trickles from one pool to another a slight decent.

ent asenting. The ferivate drains existing are of the most complicatio de.. exisition beginning in the kitchen of the house and terminating goodness only knows where, in but tonn chielper with as outlet, shrough which the filth percolatis till it finds the water level...

The upper flon of the houses

many

cases in the earth

aw made with

thin

wery

boards which not lying close together, renders it impossible

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O

mish by

the

to attempt to wrach them as that would result in

in giving. inhabitants of the rooms beneath a dirty shower bath. They are consequently covered with mud and filth deposited by their human inhabitants (in many instance, arcisted by pigo) half an inch thick. The ground floor are for the most part mad though comitime. badly tiled or covered. with stone, on this mud flow very imaginable filth falls, from cativa to prigs urine drawing from this pen. the earth is saturated with decomposing animal rocgetable matter of all descriptions, and mud floors can't bo

washed or cleaned

is known of the

ChormOTAA

So that

I don't think the value of this eart of property

prices for which these houses let. Repairs cost little or nothing gearly. In nearly every room three or more families reside up to as

the

and

room

half

many

as six w

eight,

house of

being partitioned off, each partition pays a dollar

to two dollars a month rent, and a

three rooms about fourteen feet agrace

with miserable

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little kilohen attaches, with fetch from £50 to £70.

a

it is a brothel from £ 80 to £ 100.

~ year. If it .

saw one room with

100. A

・ year.

koman

with four partitions for which the of the house paid $16 a month rent, the girls paying her = £q. a month for each partition. So that it is crident it is better to own property of this description which reques

repair than to now houses in better quartern which pay less rent and require frequent repair. I mean that the inhabitants have no okoine in the first instance) and the landlords none in the other, as to whether

little

or Mo

refairo