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The Clerk to the London County Council,
Spring Gardens, S.W. 4th April, 1912.
Brady Street Area.
Sir,
Herewith a formal representation under Part I of the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, as amended by
the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. It refers to a
small area in South-West Bethnal Green comprising the
following streets and courts :—
Brady Street West side 53 to 81 odd numbers),
Dixie Street, Scott Street, Southampton Terrace, Tent
Street, Somerford Street (South side, excluding Somerford
Houses and Mission Hall), Collingwood Street
(West side, excluding Delamere Dwellings), Cambridge
Buildings (Darling Row;, Lisbon Street Buildings,
Foster Street, Merceron Street, Brady Street (East
side Nos. 82 to 140), James Yard, Holmes Avenue,
Dagnall Place, Reuben Street, Tapp Street (Nos. 10,
12 and 14), Neath Place, Pereira Street, Colling Place,
and Colling Street.
The area contains 528 houses, inhabited by 3,058
persons. The average mortality from all causes in the area
during the past three years has been at the rate of twentyfive
per 1,000 living, as against seventeen in the whole of
Bethnal Green for the like period. The death rate from
zymotic diseases has been 4.4 against 1.7 for the whole
Borough ; the tubercular rate 3.9 against 2.0, and the rate
for diseases of the respiratory organs 6.3 as against 3.8.
Roughly speaking, the mortality from each of these classes
of disease in the Brady Street area has doubled that for the
whole Borough.
In the year 1904 a representation of an area somewhat
smaller than the one under consideration was laid before
the Council; the present representation includes that area
and takes in the following additional streets :—