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136
Houses Cleansed more
or less thoroughly.
Houses in which
Substantial Repairs or
Drainage have
been carried out.
Aylesbury Place Area 12 19
Garden Row Area 62 21
Roby Street Area 3 1
Baltic Street Area 31 1
Honduras Street Area 11 2
Totals 119 44
The areas have involved constant supervision and extra inspection
during the last two years. At the end of November, 1902, at my
suggestion, the Valuer of the County Council arranged for the
boarding up of Jerusalem Court, as the open passage and ruined
houses were being used for undesirable purposes.
The following notifiable infectious diseases occurred, including
seven cases of small-pox, but excluding eleven cases of
chicken-pox :—
1900.
1901.
1902.
Total.
The Five Areas 11 12 17 40
(vi) The Action of the London County Council.— As I have
stated on p. 89 of the Minutes (May 1902), the London County
Council scheduled all five areas under Part I. of the Housing of
the Working Classes Act, 1890, and the schemes are being
proceeded with as expeditiously as is practicable under all the
circumstances. In the carrying out of all such schemes, there
must, moreover, elapse a certain period of time occupied in the
purchase of the condemned houses previous to their demolition.
The present period of apparent delay in the proceedings is due to
the operation of the system generally adopted by the County
Council. In respect to the five areas under consideration these
operations have been as follows : The areas were represented in