HOUSE OVERCROWDED.
FIFTY-FOUR PERSONS LIVING A IN IT. .{raoti owa owv cobbxstqxdxxt.V LONDON, January 20. At Willesdcn Police Court on Saturday it was stated that eleven families, consisting of, fifty-four persons, of whom ; twenty-nine' Were children,'"flved In eleven-robmed house at Salusbury road,* "Kilburn. Mrs '"lk, Birfith, Warwick crescent, Paddington, 'summoned by the f local council for permitting Jhe house, to be overcrowded snd to become, verminous, was fined £lO and ordered 1 to 1 abate the nuisancer? ' - i ' Thet sanitary inspectors-stated .that i.since the summons was issued another child had been borxi. In one room two sets of twins had been born,: The whole -place was verminous, and Smith had done was to remove certain* filthy bedding and replace it with sonte equally bad. ~~ . „ Mr Pratt, solicitor, said that the landlady *was Ueipfeivjiig ft renjal.flf £7 7s 3d per,week for this one hquse.»
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 5
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