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Overcrowding.
Certificates were given under Section 4 (3) (c) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, respecting two cases of overcrowding, and the
Committee directed that the necessary notices should be served; 45 cases
of overcrowding were abated upon service of intimations, so that there
were in connection with private houses, 47 of overcrowding abated; two
cases of overcrowding were abated in workshops (see Miss Tattersall's
report, page 259); 136 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 261). In no instances were
legal proceedings instituted
General.
7,858 communications were received, and 794 complaints (including
63 smoke) as to nuisances were made.
Janet Street School Playground.
The General Purposes Committee again considered the condition of
the playground at Janet Street School, which is covered with ashes, and
recommended the Council that a protest against the condition of the
playground at Janet Street School be made to the London County
Council, with a request that the playground should be properly paved and
thrown open out of school hours to the children of the neighbourhood, and
that the representatives of the Borough on the London County Council be
asked to take action in the matter.
The following letter was submitted to the General Purposes
Committee:—
London County Council.
Education Offices,
Victoria Embankment, W.C.,
September 22nd, 1911.
Janet Street Ground, Millwall.
Sir,
I am in receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, relating to
the above-named ground.