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The number of persons who will be displaced by the clearance of the area
is 794, comprised in the 181 families who were living in the 115 houses in
the area on 8th June, 1936.
A. G. G. Thompson, m.d.,
8th June, 1936. Medical Officer of Health.
Representation made by the Medical Officer of Health.
Housing Acts, 1925, 1930, 1935
Fount Street Area, Lambeth.
I, Ashley George Gyton Thompson, m.d. Medical Officer of Health for
the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, do hereby represent pursuant to
the provisions of the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930, and 1935, that, in my opinion,
within the area known as the Fount Street Area (approximately 2.4 acres),
in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, the dwelling-houses:—
Conroy Street—Nos. 15 to 61 (odd Nos.) = 24 buildings ; Nos. 2 to
38 (even Nos.) = 19 buildings.
Fount Street—Nos. 2 to 38 (even Nos.) = 19 buildings; Nos. 1, 3,
5, 5a, 7 to 29 (odd Nos.), 35 to 57 (odd Nos.) = 28 buildings.
Springfield Place—Nos. la, 1 to 23 (odd Nos.) = 13 buildings; Nos.
24 to 29 (consec.) = 6 buildings.
Crimsworth Road—Nos. 2 to 12 (even Nos.) = 6 buildings;
are unfit for human habitation by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects or
are 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 most satisfactory method of dealing with the conditions
in the area is the demolition of all the buildings in the area.
A. G. G. Thompson, m.d.,
8th June, 1936. Medical Officer of Health.
The area of the land available for building, including parts of
streets, is 2.6 acres.
It is proposed that surplus accommodation on the completion of
the Hemans Street scheme shall be used for the first displacements
from the Fount Street area, and it is anticipated that it will be
possible to erect on such area four blocks, comprising some 157
dwellings (approximately 456 rooms), providing accommodation
for about 684 persons, on the basis of one-and-a-half persons per
room, of the approximately 800 persons to be displaced. The
erection of one of the blocks partly on the site of Fount Street is
dependent upon arrangements being made with the County Council
for the existing entrance building to the Springfield School in that