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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bermondsey 1931
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1931
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with the following Areas, Rotherhithe Street (East), Leroy
Street and Bethel Place. Work has already been begun on the
first of these Areas, and I understand that Leroy Street and
Bethel Place will be tackled this year. The Committee also
felt that a number of smaller Areas should be dealt with as
Clearance Areas, namely: —
houses
houses.
Bala Place 10
Kintore Street 12
Clove Place 9
Mellicks Place 20
Cloyne Row 8
New Cottage Row 3
Cottage Row 4
Paradise Place 6
Coxson's Place 4
Queens Place 6
Cundall's Court 15
Rowleys Buildings 10
English Grounds 8
Sarnells Court 5
Epsom Court 6
Surrey Buildings 13
Fells Square 5
Ship & Mermaid Row 8
Finnemore Place 6
Truscott Court 5
Gibbons Rents 4
White Lion Court 4
No official representation has yet been made in any of these
cases, but Closing Orders were placed on 9 houses in White Lion
Court in 1919. Six of these houses are still standing, four of them
being occupied, and these will be demolished within the course
of the next few months.
The following table shows the number of houses and estimated Population in the Areas mentioned in this report :—
| houses. | persons | |
|---|---|---|
| Rotherhithe Street (West) | 136 | 873 |
| Vauban Street | 129 | 903 |
| Gilham's Court | 22 | 190 |
| Rotherhithe Street (East) | 307 | 2,290 |
| Leroy Street | 64 | 346 |
| Bethel Place' | 49 | 195 |
| Smaller Areas (as above) | 171 | 900 |
The question of Improvement Areas has been left to the
London County Council, and, so far as I am aware, only one