“Mr Macdonald continuing, said: Rooms 2 and 3 in house No. 1 are divided by a petition, and as the boards have shrunk anyone can see from one room into the other. Number 3 house is in the same condition, the rooms being divided in the same manner. No. 2 privy [toilet] and ashpit answers for this house. The roof is not watertight, and the rain comes in. The ashpit is very dirty, and the smell exceedingly offensive, and injurious to health. The whole block requires reconstruction and amendment in the construction, so as to abate the nuisance. no.4 house is generally dirty throughout, but there is a back-kitchen where there is a sink right over the ashpit and water closet [toilet] of No. 2. The smell is there very bad. notice was served on Hardy to have the ashpits emptied. The houses are not fit for human occupation, in consequence of the defective construction.”
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