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Poplar 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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(5)
1930 Act—Individual
Insanitary Houses, etc.
Estimate of number of dwellings
likely to be provided by the
Borough Council in the next five
years in connection with the demolition
of individual insanitary
houses or closing of parts of buildings
under Part II of the Act.
Owing to prospective difficulty
in obtaining eligible sites, and to
the impossibility of foreseeing the
number of houses likely to become
insanitary, no satisfactory answer
can be given to this question until
a survey of the Borough has been
completed.
(6)
1930 Act.
Any suggestions of a general kind
to offer for the carrying out by the
County Council or the Borough
Council during the next 5 years, of
operations re
(a) Clearance areas (other than
those before mentioned and already
included in the County
Council's provisional programme)
and
(b) Improvement areas in the
Boroueh.
The following areas are submitted for consideration by the London
County Council:—
(a) As Clearance Areas:—
Houses
Families.
Area No. 13 27 70
The Council are strongly of opinion that this should be included in
the contiguous area already being dealt with by the London County
Council.
Houses.
Families.
Area No. 14 78 121
This area was first represented in 1919 and was not considered suitable
by the London County Council. It is still very unsatisfactory, the houses