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Poplar 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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The Council also approved the designation of the Medical Officer of
Health as proposed.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS OR TO MEMBERS OF
MORE THAN ONE FAMILY.
At the end of the year there were 1,010 houses on the register.
For Inspector's report see pages 246 and 249.
Legal proceedings were instituted in seven instances, see pages 184
and 186.
HOUSING.
Accommodation for Persons Displaced (Educational Purposes).
Proposed Sale of Housing Land (London County Council).
National Housing Congress. Housing and Town Planning
Bill.
Accommodation for Persons Displaced,
The London County Council asked the Local Government Board to
decide that a scheme for providing new dwellings to accommodate persons
of the working classes to be displaced by certain school extensions was
not necessary in view of housing provision already made by the Council
and vacant accommodation in the neighbourhoods affected.
Five houses in British Street and Cahir Street were proposed to be
demolished and 42 persons would be displaced.
The Local Government Board asked for the observations of the
Council on the matter.
The Public Health and Housing Committee were of opinion it
was not necessary that special housing accommodation should be provided
by the London County Council in respect of the premises in the Borough