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under Part I. of the Act, the suggestion is one that might
well be adopted, and such a proposal would be supported
by the Council; but there are numerous objections to
the proposal to erect a school in an unhealthy area which
is suffered to remain so by reason of the evils connected
with it being unremedied, and which, in the judgment
of the Medical Officer of Health, are dangerous and
injurious to the health of either the inhabitants of the
buildings in the area or of the neighbouring buildings.
With reference to the houses abutting on Periera
Street and Foster Street, I am to express the regret of
the Council that the Board should at this date put forward
a proposal which would involve dealing with the
property by means of private enterprise. The London
County Council, several years ago, based an indefinite
postponement of any serious consideration of an official
representation affecting part of this area upon a so-called
understanding that the area would be developed privately.
The Council has received 110 proposal from any
source for dealing with this area, or any part of it, in
such manner as would remove the grounds upon which
the official representation of the Medical Officer of Health
was based.
At the Public Inquiry in October last, the Medical
Officer of Health submitted incontrovertible evidence of
the futility of dealing with separate houses in the Brady
Street area, and proved that several houses had been
closed under the provisions of the Housing Acts and
re-opened after repair, without any improvement being
made as regards the narrowness of the street on which
the houses abutted. The inevitable result followed, and
houses again became unfit for human habitation.
I am directed to remind the Board that the Council
has received no reply to the enquiry as to whether
representations are being made, or have been made, to