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CONTENTS.
I.— PUBLIC HEALTH.
PAGES.
General Report for the year 1900 5-15
Appendices.
1. UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS IN ST. JAMES'S. Tortuous
and narrow streets occupying hinterland east of Regent Street—New
street needed from Haymarket to Poland Street—Old residences now
degraded into tenement houses—Tenement houses demolished for workshops
and warehouses—Progressive rise in the value of land—Rents
in St. James's now insupportable by working classes.
Areas of land in St. James's now encumbered by old Union Workhouse
and old Brewery should be used as sites for blocks of model
workshops furnished with electric power and electric light, and a
model restaurant for mid-day meals of workers.
2. OLD BASEMENT KITCHENS—"UNDERGROUND ROOMS."
Occupants of the old basement kitchens in St. James's—Statutory
requisites for underground rooms—Dispensing power as to certain of
the requisites—Foreign workmen—Refractory and filthy tenants—
Practical working of the law.
3. CHEAP TRAINS AND TRAMS. Deep-level tube railways as a
means of transport between centres and suburbs of London—Facilities
offered by the London Clay—The Greathead tunnelling machine—
Cheap, rapid, timely, and comfortable transport between the centres
and suburbs of London by means of deep-level tube railways is the
true solution of the housing problem—The housing problem a Metropolitan,
not a local question—Deep-level tubes as intercepting sewers.
4. BLOCK DWELLINGS IN CENTRAL LONDON. Blockdwellings
in Central London do not provide the conditions for rearing
a healthy national stock—Their further erection to be deprecated—
Metropolitan subsidies, if assigned,should go to promote cheap transport
not to the erection of further block dwellings in central London.
Non-interference with commercial building enterprise.