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Tabard Street Area.
This district, which I referred to in my last Annual Report, has
since then been carefully inspected. It is triangular in shape and
upwards of 16 acres in extent. It has always had an evil reputation.
Its morality at the present time is about the same as in the "good old
days," when highwaymen and debtors had their rendezvous in the neighbourhood
of St. George the Martyr's Church.
There was then a gaiety and carelessness about the residents which
do not obtain at the present time. There are many old people who have
lived all their lives, and their fathers before them, in Tabard Street, and
who fondly recall the glories of the old time when money circulated freely
and when there was a certain amount of fashion in the inhabitants.
Everything is now debased and it is a sad neighbour to the opulent City.
Out of mere self.respect the Metropolis cannot allow such a degraded and
unhealthy spot to remain.
The following is a copy of the representation made to the London
County Council:—
BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
To the Chairman of the Special Committee re Tabard Street Area.
Sir,
I beg to submit herewith a copy of a representation I am making to
the Clerk of the London County Council under the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890, Part I.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
G. B. Millson,
Medical Officer of Health.
[Copy.]
BOROUGH OP SOUTHWARK.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Walworth Road, S.E.
G. L. Gomme, Esq.,
Clerk of the London County Council,
Spring Gardens, S.W.
Sir,
TABARD STREET AREA.
I beg to represent under the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, Part I., that tho houses, courts and alleys lying to the