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CHURCH LANE CLEARANCE AREA.
REPRESENTATION BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
(Public Health Department.)
Town Hall,
Upper Street, N.l.
1st May, 1933.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors,
Housing Act, 1930.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13, Rothery Street.
Nos. 1 to 14, Rothery Place.
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27, Church Lane.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 10a, 12, 14, 16 and 18, Church Lane.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Church Grove, 29, Church Street.
Building extreme end of White Horse Yard, No. 8.
I beg to represent pursuant to the provisions of the Housing Act, 1930, that
in respect of the area in the Borough of Islington as shown on the annexed plan,
the dwelling houses in that area are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit
for human habitation, or by reason of their bad arrangement, or the narrowness or
bad arrangement of the streets, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants
of the area and that the other buildings, if any, in the area are for a like
reason dangerous or injurious to health to the said inhabitants, and that the most
satisfactory method of dealing with the conditions in the area is the demolition of
all the buildings in the area.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) G. Clark Trotter, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health,
Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
A census of the area showed that its clearance would involve a displacement of
93 families, comprising 432 persons who resided in it on the 12th April, 1933. It
was proposed to provide accommodation for the persons who would be displaced
in dwellings to be erected by the Council on the Sebbon Street Site, which was
being cleared for the purpose. A copy of the Council's resolution confirming was
transmitted to the Minister of Health.
FIVE YEAR PLAN—CIRCULAR 1331.
The Council had under consideration in June, Circular 1331, dated the 6th
April, 1933, addressed by the Minister of Health to local authorities stating that
His Majesty's Government are anxious that a concerted effort should be made to
deal with the question of slum clearance, and intimating that the Metropolitan
Borough Councils should confer with and submit their proposals to the London
County Council whose duty it will be to co-ordinate such proposals and transmit
them to the Minister as part of a general programme which they themselves will
prepare for the County of London. As the question of slum clearance is necessarily
associated with that of re-housing, the Public Health Committee thought it
expedient to ask the Housing Committee to join them in dealing with the matters
raised in the above-mentioned circular and that Committee readily agreed to this
course.