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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MKMBERS OF THE BOARD
OF WORKS FOR THE STRAND DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report
on the Health and Sanitary Condition of the Strand District
during the year 1893. It contains the Statistical Tables required
by the Local Government Board, and other tables from which an
idea may be formed of the position the District occupies from
a health point of view, as compared with London as a whole and
its various groups of districts.
I have again to call attention to the great difficulty which
those classes of the community who are compelled to live in
Central London experience in finding accommodation. I had
hoped that the buildings which the County Council promised
to ercct, would have been ready for occupation before any
large number of persons had been displaced from the Clare
Market Area, but now some 1,300 persons have had to quit
their houses without such provision having been made, with
the result that overcrowding has largely increased in the
neighbourhood. As the new street from Holborn to the Strand
will displace many more persons, and as the want of houseroom
prevents action being taken with respect to insanitary
property, it is of the greatest importance that the Council should
proceed to the erection of the promised dwellings without further
delay.
Although this is the last Annual Report that I shall have the
honour of submitting to your Board, I hope to be able to present,
during the present year, a supplementary report giving a resume
of statistics and other matters affecting the health of the District,
since the formation of the Board.
I have again to express my satisfaction with the way in which
the Officials of the Health Department have discharged their
duties.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
FRANCIS J. ALLAN,
Medical Officer of Health.
Health Department,
5, Tavistock Street, W.C.
27th January, 1900.