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this point to Euston Road, which would clear away the present objectionable
buildings create sites for artizans' dwellings with ample frontage, and open up a
number of transverse streets which are at present mere cul-de-sacs.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN F. J. SYKES,
Medical Officer of Health for the Vestry of St. Pancras.
Sanitary Department,
Vestry Hall, St. Pancras,
12th February, 1891.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.—Part 1. Unhealthy Areas.
To the Clerk to the London County Council.
Sir,
Pursuant to Section 4 of the above Act, I beg to make an official
representation that the areas of (1) Prospect Terrace and Derry Street, Gray's Inn
Road, and of (2) .North Crescent Mews and Bramtone Place, Mabledon Place,
Euston Road, contain houses, courts or alleys, unfit for human habitation, and that
the narrowness, closeness and bad arrangement and condition of the streets, houses,
or groups of bouses, and the want of light, air, ventilation and proper conveniences,
and the presence of other sanitary defects, are dangerous or injurious to the
health of the inhabitants of the buildings in the said areas and of the neighbouring
buildings, and that the evils connected with such houses, courts or alleys, and the
sanitary defects in such areas cannot be effectually remedied otherwise than by
an improvement scheme for the re-arrangement and re-construction of the streets
and houses within such area, or of some such streets or houses.
I had originally contemplated reporting these areas to the Yestry of Saint
Pancras under Part 2 of the Act. It appears that the Act does not provide for an
area being so reported by a Medical Officer of Health, but only for individual
houses in such an area. The only course therefore left open by the Act, in order
to embrace an area in a representation, is for me to report it to your Council.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN F. J. SYKES,
Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry of St. Pancras.
Upon receipt of the representations, the Council communicated with your
Vestry, and requested a d putation to be appointed to meet the Housing of the
Working Classes Committee of the Council, and confer with them On the 30th
April, and the 21st May, 189 i, letters were received from the Council acquainting
your Vestry that the Committee and the Council had resolved that the areas
represented were not of general importance to the County of London, and should
be dealt with under Part II. of the Act. That is to say, that your Vestry, and
not the Council, should make schemes for dealing with the areas, and should incur
the necessary expenditure for carrying them out. On the 5th August, 1891, your
Vestry resolved to submit the matter to the Home Secretary, and to request him