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the strand district, london.
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between Drury Lane and Stanhope Street; and Clare Street shall
be widened to 40 feet by setting back the whole of the frontage
on the south side between Stanhope Street and Clare Market as
shown by the dark red line on the said plan marked No. 27c.
(Signed) " M. W. RIDLEY
" Home Office, Whitehall,
"20th January, 1897.
" SCHEME.
"For the improvement of certain lands within the Metropolis,
situate in the Parishes of St. Clement Danes, St. Mary-le-Strand,
St. Giles-in-the-Ficlds and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in the County
of London, in pursuance of the ' Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890.
"Preliminary.
"Whereas an official representation, under the provisions of
the Fourth Section of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890,' was on the 23rd day of November, 1894, made to us,
the London County Council (hereinafter referred to as ' the
Council), by Francis John Allan, M.D., the Medical Officer of
Health of the Strand District, comprising the said parishes of
St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand, with respect to an
area within the said parishes, under our jurisdiction as the local
authority within the meaning of Part I. of the said Act, and
delineated on the plan annexed to the said representation and
thereon coloured red, which thereby represented (1) that houses,
courts and alleys within the said area are unfit for habitation;
(2) that the narrowness, closeness and bad arrangement of the
streets and houses, the want of light, air and ventilation, and
other sanitary defects, or one or more of such causes, are dangerous
or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the buildings in
the said area, and of the neighbouring buildings; (3) that the
evils connected with such houses, courts or alleys, and the sanitary
defects in such area cannot be effectually remedied otherwise than
by an improvement scheme for the re-arrangement and re-construction
of the streets and houses within such area, or of some of such
streets or houses.
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