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Overcrowding.
Certificates were given under Section 4 (3) (c) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, respecting seven cases of overcrowding, and the
Committee directed that the necessary notices should be served; 42 cases
of overcrowding were abated upon service of intimations, so that there
were in connection with private houses, 49 of overcrowding abated; four
cases of overcrowding were abated in workrooms (see Miss Tattersall's
report, page 280); 92 cases of overcrowding were also abated in connection
with houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than
one family (see Mr. Johnson's report, page 283). In no instances were
legal proceedings instituted.
General.
6,755 communications were received, and 848 complaints (including
62 smoke) as to nuisances were made.
Closure of Duff's Fields.
Duff's Fields has now been closed as a public thoroughfare, under the
Order of the Court of Quarter Sessions, made on the 4th of January.
Playground for Cubitt Town.
The leaseholder of a piece of vacant land at Cubitt Town, bounded by
Manchester Road, Samuda Street and Stewart's Terrace, offered to allow
the Council use of the land during the remainder of his lease (over 30 years)
free of ground rent, provided the Council would lay the land out as a
playground or recreation ground, and arrange for the necessary supervision.
The General Purposes Committee were of opinion the offer made by
the leaseholder was a generous one which should be accepted and that
the method of dealing with the site should be referred to the Works
Committee.
The plans and estimates for laying-out Cubitt Town Playground were
submitted to the Local Government Board by the Central (Unemployed)
Body of London.