. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . View of Half-moon place is situated in the rear of Broad street, and is form-ed by a kind of excavation into the side of Fort Hill ; the houseswhich form its semi-circular side being built either against the hill, orseparated from it by a space of a few feet. It has two narrow en-trances between blocks of houses, on Broad street, and Jacobs Lad-der, which, at the time of the prevalence of Cholera, was a very di-lapidated stair-case, that connects it with Humphrey place, and thuswith the higher streets
. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . View of Half-moon place is situated in the rear of Broad street, and is form-ed by a kind of excavation into the side of Fort Hill ; the houseswhich form its semi-circular side being built either against the hill, orseparated from it by a space of a few feet. It has two narrow en-trances between blocks of houses, on Broad street, and Jacobs Lad-der, which, at the time of the prevalence of Cholera, was a very di-lapidated stair-case, that connects it with Humphrey place, and thuswith the higher streets upon the hill. Bakers alley, one of its en-trances, forms its northern boundary, and Burgess alley extends fromits southern extremity. The cut represents a portion only of the place,and conveys, as do the others, but an imperfect idea of the near prox-imity of the houses, and the utter want of any circulation of air. The 432 APPENDIX TO SANITARY Burgess Alley; North View.—From point marked 2, on plan. side towards Broad street, from which the view is taken, is formed bythe sheds in the rear of the houses on that street, with extremely dirtybackyards, and a fair proportion of privies. To the right of Jacobs Ladder, as represented in the cut, is acluster of six privies, situated nearly in the centre of the place. Atthe time of the epidemic, these were greatly out of repair, and theground about them was covered with their overflowing contents, re-moved only by evaporation. They have since been repaired, so as topresent a better outward appeaiance. A fence has since been erected,as a screen, at the side of the Ladder, to hide the naked deformityof its neighborhood. At the foot of the drain are two more clusters ofprivies, six in number. The open space likewise presents three cess-pools, intended to convey off the dirty water ; but which were chokedby all sorts of vegetable matters, as fragments of cabbage and these
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