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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affecting the area should be effected under two distinct
schemes, and that such schemes should in all the circumstances
of the time be undertaken not simultaneously,
but successively, so as to spread the cost of the operation
and the displacement of the inhabitants over a long
period.
It is proposed to deal in the first scheme with the
undermentioned property :—
1— 31 (odd numbers)
2—36 (even numbers) Neath Place.
45—63 (odd numbers)
10, 12, and 14, Tapp Street.
53, 55 and 57
82—106 and site of 108 (even numbers)
126—140 (even numbers) Brady Street
2—28 (even numbers) Somerford Street.
39, 89, 91, and 93 Collingwood Street.
2—24 (consecutive numbers) Dixie Street.
2—38 (even numbers) Scott Street.
1—25 (odd numbers)
Dagnall Place.
4—20 (even numbers)
la and 1—18 (consecutive numbers) Holmes
Avenue.
1 and 2, James Yard.
1, 2, and 3, Merceron Street.
The London County Council estimates the net cost
of the first scheme, including acquisition of property,
cost of roads, &<•., and allowing for estimated value
of surplus land and re-housing sites, will be £46,800,
and it is proposed that the expenditure shall be extended
over a period of five years, the gross expenditure being