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one direction into Toulon Street, and thence to Westhall Road, and in the
other into Camberwell Road.
We would suggest to the members of the Committee the propriety
of themselves surveying this neighbourhood, when we feel convinced the
urgent necessity of the reform we herein suggest will be manifest. If
the Committee requires further information we shall be prepared to attend
one of its meetings if it be considered necessary or desirable.—We are,
yours faithfully,
Charles Edward Brooke, Vicar, St. John's, Kennington,
and St. Michael's, Toulon Street.
J. Canon McGrath.
Arthur O'Neill, Camberwell Vestry.
Isaac J. Legg, Camberwell Vestry.
J. E. Burkmar, Camberwell Vestry.
E. W. Marshall, Camberwell Vestry.
Claude T. G. Powell, Clergy House, Avenue Road,
Geo. Watkins, Grocer, 42, Sultan Street.
Sister Jane, 122, Wyndham Road.
Joseph Buckland, Grocer, 39, Hollington Street.
John Arthur Passent, 56, Hollington Street.
L. C. Shipton, 226a, Albany Road.
J. P. Ellen, 18, Church Street.
Alexander Smith, Camberwell Vestry.
In due course the question was referred to me for a
report, which I made and presented to the Committee on April
27th, 1896. This report is largely based on the results of a
personal inspection made by the Inspector of the district and
myself, in the course of which we visited about a fourth of the
total number of houses in the streets that I have named in the
above-mentioned report, of which the following is a copy :—
Report op the Medical Officer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, —I have carefully considered the memorial
from members of the clergy and others regarding the state of Hollington
Street, &c. The overcrowding they speak of does certainly exist in some
instances, but I think the statement that five or six families reside in one
house is exaggerated. I am bound to say, however, that I believe that the
statements made by the inhabitants with regard to the number of people
occupying the houses in which they live are not altogether to be relied on.
But granting all this, the overcrowding is not to the extent shown in the
memorial. It is quite true that the neighbourhood is a black spot in the
Parish; but the provision of a new road, although it might benefit one of
these streets, would most certainly make the overcrowding much worse in
the neighbouring ones. Supposing, for instance, that Sultan Street
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