Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1914 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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a scheme ought to have been made for the improvement
of the area to which the inquiry relates or
some part thereof, they may, if they think fit,
order the Local Authority to make such a scheme
either under Part I. of the Principal Act, or, if
the Confirming Authority so direct, under Part II.
of that Act, and to do all things necessary under
the Housing Acts for carrying into execution the
scheme so made, and that the Local Authority shall
accordingly make a scheme or direct a scheme to
be prepared as if they had passed the resolution
required under Section 4 or Section 39 of the Principal
Act, as the case may be, and do all things
necessary under the Housing Acts for carrying the
scheme into effect;
And whereas the County Council for the
Administrative County of London (herein-after
referred to as the "Local Authority") are the
Local Authority for the purposes of Part I. of the
Principal Act for the said County;
And whereas an official representation was
made to the Local Authority by the Medical Officer
of Health of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal
Green with a view to their passing a resolution in
favour of an improvement scheme for the rearrangement
and reconstruction of the streets and
houses within a certain area in the said Metropolitan
Borough comprising the following streets and
courts:—Brady Street (West side), Nos. 53, 55,
57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
and 81; Dixey Street; Scott Street; Southampton
Terrace; Tent Street; Somerford Street (South side,