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The plans of the several areas having been published in the Annual Report
for 1891, it is unnecessary to reproduce them here.
With reference to the area to be dealt with by the County Council, under
Part I. of the Act, in accordance with advice of Counsel, I made a new
representation to the County Council to deal with this area.
The following is a copy of the representation so made, viz.:—
Health Department,
Vestry Hall, St. Pancras,
22nd July, 1893.
Housing of the Working Clams Act, 1890, London (Churehway,
St. Pancras) Improvement, 1893.
To The London County Council,
Take Notice that pursuant to Section 4 of 53 and 54 Victoria, 1890,
Chapter 70, above named, I do hereby make an Official Representation to you,
the above-named London County Council, that in the Parish of Saint Pancras,
and in the district of Somers Town, in that Parish, and within the area,
bounded by Seymour Street, Drummond Street, Chalton Street, and Euston
Road, excluding Christopher Place, which area is delineated and coloured
pink on the plan hereunto annexed, and signed by me to the effect following,
that is to say : —
1.—That houses, courts, or alleys within the said area are unfit for
human habitation, and —
2.—That streets and houses or groups of houses within the said area, from
their narrowness, closeness, bad arrangement, and bad condition, and the want
of light, air, ventilation, proper conveniences, and other sanitary defects, are
dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants within the said area,
and of the neighbouring buildings.
These evils and sanitary defects cannot be effectively remedied otherwise
than by an improvement scheme for the re-arrangement and reconstruction of
the streets and houses within this area, or some of them.
John F. J. Sykes, D.Sc., M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of St. Pancras,
in the County of London.
With regard to the area north o f Drummond Street, and west of Chalton
Street, which, on sanitary grounds, was the least objectionable of the separate
areas, as divided by the Home Secretary's award, and in respect of which area
the Vestry were required to carry out any necessary amendments without a
contribution from the County Council, your Vestry found that it was not
necessary to prepare any scheme, but decided to appoint a temporary Inspector
for three months to make a house-to-house inspection and report thereon, with
the view to taking any necessary action to cause the individual houses in this
area to be put into proper sanitary condition.