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Conclusions.
The conclusions at which I have arrived, as Medical Officer of
Health of the Borough, with over twenty years' official knowledge
of the Borough and the late Parish of Lambeth, may be set out as
follows :—
(1) Under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890, no large area scheme to be carried out, such a
scheme being unnecessary, and proving in practice dilatory
in procedure and costly, not to mention the great
inconvenience to the large numbers of tenants who would
be displaced, and the crowding and overcrowding that
would necessarily ensue consequentially in the neighbouring
areas.
(2) Under Part 111. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act
1890,
(a) lodging-houses for the working classes to be erected
preferably beyond the area of Inner London, and
consequently outside the Lambeth Borough boundaries,
except, perhaps, in the case of Norwood Ward,
where three suitable sites are available in connection
with what are known as Portobello House, Holderness
House and St. Gothard's Road Estates, which
might be utilised for the erection of dwellings for
Lambeth inhabitants, or
(b) empty or derelict large houses within the Borough to be
reconstructed and converted into flats or tenements
(self-contained), as lodging-houses for the working
classes of Lambeth Borough.
(3) Under Part 11. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890, or, rather, under the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1909, which repeals the section of the Housing Act,
1890, relating to condemnation and subsequent demolition
of houses (individually and in small collections) that
are unfit for human habitation, action to be systemati-