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ADVance 4831
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Bethnal Green , E.2.
June, 1964.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of
Bethnal Green.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen ,
I have the honour to report on the health and sanitary
circumstances of the Borough for the year 1963.
Last year I referred to areas of unfit houses represented
during both the previous and present clearance programmes and to the
erection of new homes on the sites provided.
During the year under review in pursuance of the Council's
housing policy progress has again been extensive, resulting in the demolition
of a further large number of tenements and houses which had outspent
their useful life.
Satisfactory housing accommodation does more than
anything else to promote and maintain a healthy community. With the
exception of "New Towns" there are probably few districts where the
average standard of accommodation is as high as in Bethnal Green where
approximately half the dwellings are of post war construction with modern
facilities.