INSANITARY BUILDINGS IN AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12027, 25 July 1902, Page 5

INSANITARY BUILDINGS IN AUCKLAND.

•;' . REPORT BY DR. MAKGHjL. At the meeting of the City Council last night Dr. R. H. Makgill, district health offi- '• cer, ' reported that a house in Abercrombie- ' street, tenanted by three families, was in an £ insanitary condition and should be pulled I : down. He noticed that a house at the corner of Short and Jermyn Streets had not : been removed, and he hoped it would be attended to without delay. In regard to the houses in Adams' Lane, great improvements had been made in the surroundings, and the . front row of houses being now in a fair sanitary condition he would not now press for their removal. Of the rear row of houses, ; the two-storeyed building at the bottom of I the gully was quite unfit for human habitation, and he again recommended its removal. Throe other houses required considerable repairs. He again recommended I the pulling down of a house in Wakefield-: street. In ' regard to Bowden's stables in Wakefield-street he had been assured that the yard would be put in a sanitary state at , »n early date. • ■ Mr. Hewson asked why material should be taken from a condemned building and ■carted to another portion of the city and there used again in the erection or repair of other buildings. In some cases of condemned buildings which had come under his notice the timber seemed quite sound. He moved, "That the question of those buildings bo referred to the Sanitary Com:VjnMr*' Patterson agreed with Mr. Hewson and seconded the motion. ■ - Mr. Hannan thought the members of the Sanitary Committee should have an oppor- .: tunity of inspecting buildings .theid* trier Ulth officer considered they should be Co Mr em Glover asked who was going to recoup ■- thrown Tof houses which were condemned without cause owing to error, of judgment. Mr. Hewson's preposition was earned . Two other letters fromJhe d.stnothealth > officer, »nd another from Mr P.• « e H"»f •«" J the subject of insanitary btuTdings were also referred to the Sanitary Committee,