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areas, and the number of houses, families and persons living in
the adjacent area of four acres acquired by the London County
Council for the provision of accommodation for the persons
displaced. In this scheme arrangements were made for the
accommodation of 2,020 persons in six blocks of buildings.
No. of
Houses
No. of
Families
No. of
Persons
"A" Insanitary Area: 3 Acres—
Bowyer Street
14
14
92
6
7
28
Crown Street
45
Mayhews Buildings
12
12
38
38
168
Wyndham Road
9
12
42
Pinto Place
17
68
Pallador Place
11
4
4
15
Comber Grove
Totals
84
104
458
“B” Area to be Acquired: 4 Acres —
Comber Grove
39
80
254
23
3
5
3
5
19
Blucher Road
Aliens Cottages
296
Totals
45
90
Grand Totals
129
194
754
By an Order, dated. 2nd May, 1927, the Minister of Health
confirmed this scheme with modifications.
In 1926 a representation was made to the London County
Council pursuant to the provisions of Section 35 of the Housing
Act 1925, for an improvement scheme embodying the unhealthy
sites known as Basing Place and Blue Anchor Lane areas. The
London County Council submitted an improvement scheme
which provided for the rehousing in the Blue Anchor Lane area
of a number of persons not fewer than the number to be displaced
under the scheme. The Minister of Health, after holding a
public local enquiry sanctioned the scheme, with certain modifications,
by an Order dated 23rd September, 1927.

In 1934, the Council resolved to deal with small insanitary
areas in the Borough and arrangements were made for the Lon-