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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
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the Order) and its relation to the rest of the District; the parts
in the Area coloured blue are those which, while not in themselves
included in the unhealthy area, are yet necessary to be taken
for the improvement scheme. Provision is made on the Area for
the re-housing of 750 persons, being 250 more than proposed by
the Council, and on the Millbmk site for 1,500 instead of 1,269
persons.
"LONDON (CLARE MARKET. STRAND) IMPROVEMENT
SCHEME, 1895.
"Provisional Order.
"Whereas the London County Council presented to me, The
Right Honourable Sir Matthew White Ridley, one of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, a petition praying that
an Order might be made confirming a scheme made by the said
County Council under the ' Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890,' for the improvement of a certain area situated partly in
the Parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, partly in the Parish of St.
Clement Danes, partly in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields,
and partly in the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in the County
of London, and subject to the jurisdiction of the said County
Council as the local authority under the said Act;
"And whereas a copy of the scheme and of the estimate with
which it was accompanied is annexed to this Order;
"And whereas on consideration of the said petition, and on
proof of the publication of the proper advertisements, and of the
service of the proper notices, I thought fit to proceed with the case,
and directed a local enquiry to be made by Mr. Herbert Thomas
Steward in, or in the vicinity of, the area to which the scheme
relates, for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the
official representation made to the London County Council as to
the area, and the sufficiency of the scheme provided for its
improvement, and any local objections to be made to such scheme ;
"And whereas before commencing such enquiry the said
Herbert Thomas Steward made public, by advertisement, his
intention to make such enquiry, and stated the time and place at
which he would be prepared to hear all persons desirous to be