Mr. D. Measlier. . ,46 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE 3406. Do you know what rooms were let in that house in lodgings ?— No, 26 fvw^ jB. 1 Did you go up stairs in this house ?- No I do not think I did at this time I must have gone on former occasions, in the year of sickness. MO8 Do you believe it to be true that one room up stairs is so much out of repair as to be untenantable ?— That might be from the circumstance of the tenant putting it in bad order before leaving it. ,40o Can you say " yes " or « no " to that fact ?— I cannot. W hen the rent was ascertained to be 10 guineas, my inquiry did not become so minute; but I was quite satisfied with the outward appearance of the house, knowing this neighbourhood, and knowing the houses, from being formerly inside of them m the year of the cholera ; and on this visit I did not pay it that minute attention that I would otherwise have done. 3410. What do you think would be the natural rent for one of the rooms up stairs ?— Some of the rooms in those houses set at 10r/., and some at Is. 3411. In that particular house, what do you think it would be for one of the rooms up stairs?— Some U., some 1.?. Gd. and 2s. 3412. None as low as 10c/. ?— They are very deep houses. In the back part the rooms may set at 10^., but the front rooms are worth Is. to 2.?. They are very commodious houses in that neighbourhood. 3413. How many rooms are there in the lower part of the house?-— There are two in the lower part, and there are stairs going up; and then you go into the yard, and there are other rooms; it is a kind of double house. 3414. Mr. Serjeant Jackson. J Have you a distinct recollection that you went up stairs in that house ?— No, I have not at this time ; but I know I have gone up before, because all the houses on that side I visited during the year of the cholera. I was one of the board of health. 3415. Was there cholera in this particular house ?— There was, or the house next to it. There were not two houses together that escaped the visitation. 3416. Were you ever up stairs in this house at all ?— I was. 3417. ' When ?— Probably a couple of years before my last examination of the outside. 3418. What were you up stairs about?— Looking at the state of the house, and seeing that the officers of health had it whitewashed and fumigated, and I had gone to see it. I have gone into all the hospitals and all the dwellings of the poor particularly in that neighbourhood. My dwelling- house is in that parish, and I am better acquainted with it than with other parts of the city. 3419. Are you now prepared to say positively that you did go up stairs in that house ?— Not upon this last visit. 3420. You have spoken of the quality of the rooms up stairs ; that there are some worth 1 s. and 2 . v. Do you mean your evidence to refer to the present time ?—' Yes ; I suppose the rooms cannot be much worse than when I saw them. 3421. Is it possible that there could be one of the rooms up stairs so bad as to be untenantable, and you not know it ?— It might be, because when I saw the rent was 10 guineas, I was not so particular. 3422. Do you know when the letting was made for 10 guineas ?— No. 3423. Do you know when the man became tenant of it ?— No. 3424- Mr. Beamish. Did you visit the house of Edmond Riordan, of Ban don- road, which is spoken to by Mr. Young, in answer 2046 ?— I did. 3425. Can you state what is the value of his premises ?— Mrs. Riordan stated, m the absence of her husband, that the rent they paid was 107. a year, and I put him down " value." 3426. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] You did not put him down « good value" ?— No; if it was beyond all question, I would have put " good value " rJ£ L71 n; Ve, y° U any d° UM ° f itS behlS 101 value 1 have no doubt of his paying 10 a year rent. rinnhf;^ ave yi? Many d0Ubu 0f its bdn- 10/- ™ lue?- I must have had some doubt, or I would have put " good value " 3429- Then you doubted whether it was worth the rent he paid for it?— Ihat must have been my opinion 1 theoJem^ sT^ 8 l* that P6° l) le on » » der a rent that me premises are not worth I know them to be absolutely undeir a rent that the premises are not worth. ^ uuuer a lent mat 3431. What