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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BETHNAL
GREEN.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Church Row, N E.
February 24th, 1904.
Sir,
Brady Street Area.
Herewith a formal representation under the first
part of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
with reference to a small area in South Bethnal Green,
comprising the following streets and courts:—Little
Collingwood Street, York Place, Merceron Street,
Pereira Street, Neath Place, part of Somerford Street,
Reuben Street, Dagnall Place, Holmes Avenue (formerly
called New Square), part of Brady Street, Tapp
Street, South of Somerford Street, George Court, and
Gloucester Gardens.
The area contains 226 houses, inhabited by 1,286
persons, 346 of whom are children under ten years of
age. The average death rate from all causes in the
area during the past three years has been at the rate of
28.5 per thousand living, as against 21.3 for the whole
of Bethnal Green for a similar period. The death rate
from tubercular disease has been nearly double that of
the remainder of the Borough.
Within my experience over a thousand notices under
the various Sanitary Acts in force have been served on
owners with respect to houses in this area; but as most