Sydney City and Suburban Sewage and Health Board : Eleventh progress report
... visit Frying-pan Flat, Sussex-street. Here there is a large piece of open ground, one part of which extends to the foreshore of Darling Harbour ... Turning down Erskine-street we inspected four wooden houses at the bottom of the place ... badly ventilated and very close ... Adjoining this was another wooden shanty, 9 x 10 feet and 6 feet high, offering accommodation of an inferior character, inasmuch as the room contained no ceiling, and rented at the reduced price of 3s. 6d. ...
The same description will apply to all the miserable hovels which we have noticed in this locality ; they are in a tumble-down dilapidated state ; the walls are crumbling to pieces and the roofs patched up with pieces of tin, iron, old bags, and any other materials at hand, which have the effect of keeping out the rain and confining the foul air ...
To appreciate the wretched state of ruin and discomfort which these buildings present, it is necessary to visit the place ; no description can convey a true impression of their utter unfitness for human habitation. |
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