• Title
  [Group of children, Ann's Place in Kent Street, 1875]
• Call number
  SPF/507
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [Dec 1875]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  413086
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 22.4 x 18.9 cm.
  
• General note
  
  Another print at: [Photographs of] Buildings condemned and pulled down, [Sydney ca. 1875-1901] / C.H. Woolcott, Town Clerk, 1882. p.35 (PXA 514 Mitchell Library)
  "Personal inspection by no.1 sub-committee. eleventh day, Monday, 6 December, 1875 ... We then inspected Ann's Place in Kent-street, owned by the Hon G.W. Allen, (Harris, agent). In this lane there are six houses let at 6s a week each; the rooms, of which there are two in each house, are 11 1/2 ft x 10 1/2 ft and 8 1/2 ft high, and badly ventilated. At the end of the lane or court there are two other houses about 3 ft below the level of the court, let also at 6s a week; the lower rooms are very close, not being more than 6 ft high; an open drain runs down the yard. The tenants complain of the awful stench arising from this drain; as usual the complaint was `the landlord would do nothing'. We also inspected a two-roomed house fronting Kent-street, belonging to the same property, 18 inches below the level of the street; the walls are lined with wood and very damp. The tenants complained of the want of air; there was an ashpit next to the water-closet, about 4 ft square, which is only cleaned out once a fortnight; it was nearly full of decayed vegetable matter and other refuse and was very offensive." -- Quote from: Sydney City and Suburban Sewage and Health Board : Eleventh progress report / NSW Legislative Assembly. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1876. pp.28-9 (Q628.0991/S Mitchell Library)
  Digital order no:a089507
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Name
  New South Wales. Legislative Assembly. Sydney City and Suburban Sewage and Health Board.
  
• Topic
  children
  condemned buildings
  health inspections
  slums
  city & town streets
  
• Place
  Ann's Place (Kent Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1228804

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