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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
Housing of the Working Classes.
In last year's report reference was made to the Council's proposal to treat as an improvement
scheme two areas in Southwark known as the Tabard-street and Grotto-place areas, and an area in Bermondsey
known as the Crosby-row area, which had been represented to the Council by the respective
medical officers of health of those boroughs. In November, 1911, after correspondence with the Local
Government Board on the subject the Council agreed to modify the scheme in the following particulars :—
(1) To provide as many cottages as could be conveniently erected on the detached portion
of the Tabard-street area between Law-street and Little Hunter-street.
(2) To provide sheds on the area for the convenience of street traders, and accommodation
for barrows as may be required for the use of such street traders as may be displaced by
the scheme.
(3) To retain and use part of the land as an open space accessory to the scheme for rehousing.
Proceedings
under Part I.
of the
Housing of
the Working
Classes Act,
1890.
A copy of the resolutions on these proposals was forwarded to the Local Government Board.
In October, the Council accepted a tender of £3,241 for the erection of 15 cottages on Section C
of the Norbury estate.
Proceedings
of the
Council
under Part
III. of the
Act.
Article V. of the regulations made by the Local Government Board in September, 1910, under
this Act, requires that the "medical officer of health shall include in his annual report information and
particulars in tabular form in regard to the number of dwelling houses inspected under and for the
purposes of section 17 of the Act of 1909, the number of dwelling houses which on inspection were
considered to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, the
number of representations made to the local authority with a view to the making of closing orders,
the number of closing orders made, the number of dwelling houses the defects in which were remedied
without the making of closing orders, the number of dwelling houses which, after the making of
closing orders, were put into a fit state for human habitation, and the general character of the
defects found to exist. He shall also include any other information and particulars which he may
consider desirable in regard to the work of inspection under the said section."
Housing,
Town Planning
Act,
Section 17

(a) 24 of these relate to houses closed in 1910. (b) 2 of these relate to houses closed in 1910.
(c) 30 of these were determined early in 1912. * Inspections made but number not stated. f Tenements.