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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BETHNAL
GREEN.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Church Row, N.E.
To the London County Council,
Spring Gardens, S.W.
Houses of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
I have the honour to report that I have investigated
the sanitary condition of a small area in the South
Registration District of the Borough of Bethnal Green,
in the County of London.
The area referred to is delineated and coloured red
on the plan herewith annexed, and signed by me, and
I hereby make an official representation within the
meaning of the Housing of the Working Classes Act
1890, to the effect following, that is to say:—
(1) Many of the houses within the said area are unfit for
human habitation.
(2) The narrowness, closeness and bad arrangement of some
of the streets and houses within such area, and the
want of light, air and ventilation are dangerous and
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 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 the area.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of February, 1904.
(Signed) GEORGE PADDOCK BATE,
Medical Officer of Health
for Bethnal Green.