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Appendix A.

The following is a tabular statement of the sanitary condition of former Health Districts 5 and 6 (now practically 5, 6, 7 and 8) prepared for the use of the Insanitary Properties Commission. By "insufficient open space in the rear," heading C, is meant every house in which the backyard is ob- structed by a bridge more than 3′ 6′′ in width or by any other structure, and every back to back house (ie., having no backyard) in which the kitchen has not been opened out to the extent of at least one-half of the width of such house, and for the entire depth of such kitchen.

A. Back to back houses,

May 1st, 1897.

166

B. Houses fronting on narrow lanes

68

C. Houses with insufficient open space in the rear,

228

D. Houses abutting against the hillside to a depth of

more than 4 feet,

114

A+ B.........

90

A+C..........

1,193

A+ D........

40

A+B+C

A+B+D

78

A+C+D

A+B+C+D

B+C....

158

57

33

B+D.....

..

9

B+C+D.

C+D....

9

283

Total,..

2,530

Total number of houses in these districts,

3,095

Number of houses in fairly good sanitary condition

(=18%),

565

FRANCIS W. CLARK,

Medical Officer of Health.

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