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3. Action under Part II. of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act for houses and small areas which are
beyond repair, when necessary (and, where action
possible, under Part III.).
4. The importance of improvement in transit.
Without some improved means of transit (cheap and rapid) the carrying
out of the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act and
the Public Health (London) Act, must involve the incurrence of considerable
hardship upon persons it was the object of these Acts to
assist. One of the most hopeful signs in Finsbury during the last five
years has been the marked improvement in means of transit (e.g. the
Tube Railway from the " Angel" to South London, which is being
extended to King's Cross; the new tramways down Rosebery Avenue;
the various extensions of the District Railway connecting with the
Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon Road; the new services from
King's Cross ; and the Tube Railway from Finsbury Park to the Bank).