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Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Part II., Section 39
(1) (b).
The following representations under Part II. of the above Act
were made during the year: —
(a) I beg hereby to make an official representation to the
Bermondsey Borough Council, being the Local Authority within
the meaning of the above Act and Sections, that the closeness,
narrowness, and bad arrangement and bad condition of the buildings,
the want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences,
and many other sanitary defects in the building situated in the
areas marked “ red ” on accompanying maps, are such as to
render them dangerous and prejudicial to the inhabitants, and
that to remedy the said evils, demolition or re-construction or
re-arrangement of the said buildings or some of them is necessary,
and further that the area comprising those buildings and the
yards, out-houses and appurtenances thereof, and the site thereof,
is too small to be dealt with as an unhealthy area under Part I.
of this Act.
The areas are marked on the maps, and are known by the
following numbers and names: —
No. 1.—Bethel Place Area.
No. 2. —Leroy Street „
No. 5. —Salisbury Street „
No. 6. —Prospect Street „
No. 7.—Spa Road „
Salisbury Street Area.
(b) I, Richard King Brown, Medical Officer of Health for the
Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, do hereby report that in
my opinion the closeness, narrowness, and bad arrangement or
bad condition of the buildings comprised in the area coloured red
in the Schedule hereto, or the want of light, air, ventilation or
proper conveniences, or other sanitary defects in such buildings,
are dangerous and prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of
the said buildings, or of the neighbouring buildings, and that the
demolition, or the re-construction and re-arrangement of the said
building, or of some of them is necessary to remedy the said evils.