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London County Council 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Gun-street-dwellings, St. George-the-Martyr.
Great Pearl-street, Whitechapel.
Hilliards-court and Whitethorn-place, St. George-in-the-East.
Lewin's-buildings, Mile-end Old-town.
Mary Ann-buildings, Deptford.
Star-road, Fulham.
Ship-court and other courts in Westminster.
Sexton's-cottages and other blocks of houses, Greenwich.
Toulon-street and Thompson's-avenue, Camberwell.
Tyrrell-street and adjoining streets, Bethnal-green.
Holborn to Strand Improvement.—I made during the summer of 1892 an exhaustive inquiry
with regard to the area situated between Holborn and the Strand, and specially reported on three areas
in the Strand district (one of them of considerable size and occupied by some 1,700 persons). The
Committee subsequently reported to the Council on October 4th, 1892, that these areas appeared to he
suitable for being made the subject of schemes under Part I. of the Housing of tbe Working Classes
Act.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
In the year 1890 the Council received information that 397 houses had been represented to the
sanitary authorities under the Housing of the Working Classes Act as unfit for human habitation.
In 1891, 1361 were so represented. In 1892 the number fell to 469, the provisions of the Public
Health (London) Act for procuring the closing of insanitary houses being employed in many cases in
substitution for those of the former Act. The following table shows the proceedings taken in respect
of individual houses during the year 1892 in the several districts exclusive of the City.
| Local authority. | Total number of houses concerning which the Council has received information that representations have been made during year ended 51/12/92. | Number of houses closed, demolisned or improved by owners without Magisterial intervention. | Number of houses for which closing orders were granted. | Number of houses lor which closing orders were refused. | Number of houses outstanding or concerning which proceedings are in progress. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closed. | Demolished. | Improved. | Total. | Subsequently demolished. | Subsequently improved. | No further action. | Total. | ||||
| Battersea | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Berruondsey | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethnal-green | §73 | — | 5 | 5 | 10 | 28 | 16 | 12 | 56 | — | *6 |
| Camberwell | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chelsea | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clerkenwell | 15 | — | — | 15 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fulham | 37 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 12 | 6 | 21 | — | 16 |
| Greenwich | 13 | 13 | — | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hackney | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hammersmith | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hampstead | 5 | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| Holborn | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Islington | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kensington | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 24 |
| Lambeth | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lewisham | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Limehouse | 18 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 5 | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| Mile-end Old-town | 92 | 5 | 3 | 53 | 61 | — | — | 11 | 11 | — | 20 |
| Newington | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 5 | — | 3 |
| Paddington | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Plumstead | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poplar | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rotherhithe | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. George, Hanover-square | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. George-in-the-East | 47 | 3 | 12 | 26 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — |
| St. George-the-Martyr | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Giles | 26 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 24 | — | — |
| St. James, Westminster | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Luke | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Marylebone | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Olave, Southwark | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | 8 | — | — |
| St. Pancras | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| St. Saviour, Southwark | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Shoreditch | 10 | — | — | 10 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Strand | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wandsworth | 52 | 5 | — | 46 | 51 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Westminster | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whitechapel | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Woolwich | ‡28 | — | 4 | 3 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 469 | 33 | 31 | 171 | 235 | 45 | 36 | 61 | 142 | — | 70 |
§ 1 house subsequently dealt with under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
‡ 21 houses subsequently dealt with under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
* Included in the Boundary-street area improvement scheme