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London County Council 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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xxxvii.
Housing of the Working Classes—Accounts.
APPENDIX XV.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON CLEARANCE SCHEMES UNDER THE HOUSING OF
THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
| Clearance Scheme. | Date of Act sanctioning Scheme. | Capital Expenditure to 31st March, 1911. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross. | Receipts applied to Capital Expenditure. | Net. (a) | ||||||||
| Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. Part I. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Whitechapel and Limehouse | 1876 | 187,557 | 18 | 6 | 35,795 | 1 | 4 | 151,762 | 17 | 2 |
| Holborn | — | 1,728 | 14 | 7 | - | 1,728 | 14 | 7 | ||
| Goulston-street and Flower and Dean-street, Whitechapel | 1877 | 371,607 | 5 | 5 | 87,635 | 15 | 7 | 283,971 | 9 | 10 |
| Elizabeth-place, King-street and Mint-street, St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark | 66,785 | 10 | 8 | 14,342 | 5 | 9 | 52,443 | 4 | 11 | |
| Bedfordbury, St. Martin-in-the-Fields | „ | 87,212 | 8 | 4 | 11,701 | 14 | 4 | 75,510 | 14 | - |
| Great Wild-street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields | „ | 124,278 | 7 | 10 | 18,627 | 15 | 9 | 105,650 | 12 | 1 |
| Pear Tree-court, Clerkenwell | „ | 27,426 | 6 | 5 | 6,556 | 11 | 6 | 20,869 | 14 | 11 |
| Whitecross-street, St. Luke | „ | 391,302 | 19 | 2 | 76,360 | 5 | 3 | 314,942 | 13 | 11 |
| High-street, Islington | „ | 44,775 | 11 | 3 | 6,588 | 16 | 7 | 38,186 | 14 | 8 |
| Old Pye-street,Westminster | „ | 79,389 | 4 | 10 | 29,493 | — | 4 | 49,896 | 4 | 6 |
| •Bowman's-buildings, St. Marylebone ............ | 1878 | 52,348 | 6 | 6 | 15,889 | 15 | 6 | 36,458 | 11 | - |
| Essex-road, Islington | „ | 115,108 | - | - | 17,209 | 6 | 2 | 97,898 | 13 | 10 |
| Little Coram-street, Bloomsbury | 1879 | 14,358 | 19 | 3 | 871 | 8 | 8 | 13,487 | 10 | 7 |
| Wells-street, Poplar | „ | 75,771 | 8 | 7 | 11,651 | 19 | 8 | 64,119 | 8 | 11 |
| Great Peter-street, Westminster | „ | 235 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 212 | 12 | 8 |
| Tench-street, St. George-in-the East | 1883 | 52,636 | 16 | 4 | 645 | 17 | 9 | 51,990 | 18 | 7 |
| Brook-street, Limehouse | „ | 23,794 | 14 | 11 | 3,988 | 2 | 6 | 19,806 | 12 | 5 |
| Windmill-row, Lambeth | „ | 13,212 | 5 | 8 | 3,433 | 12 | 11 | 9,778 | 12 | 9 |
| Trafalgar-road, Greenwich | „ | 20,700 | 4 | — | 3,023 | 12 | 8 | 17,676 | 11 | |
| Tabard-street, Newington | 1885 | 18,629 | 13 | 7 | 10,400 | 7 | 8 | 8,229 | 5 | 11 |
| Hughes-fields, Deptford | „ | 91,978 | 3 | 5 | 8,083 | 5 | 10 | / 83,894 | 17 | 7 |
| Cable-street, Shadwell | 1887 | 46,390 | 10 | 6 | 5,155 | 8 | 2 | 41,235 | 2 | 4 |
| Shelton-street, St. Giles | „ | 79,553 | 13 | 6 | 11,134 | 12 | 9 | 68,419 | - | 9 |
| Boundary-street Bethnal Green | 1891 | 353,430 | 3 | 9 | 74,442 | 7 | 10 | 278, 987 | 15 | 11 |
| Goldsmith's-row Shoreditch | 4,885 | 7 | 10 | 1,090 | 17 | 6 | 3,794 | 10 | ||
| Churchway, Somers Town, St. Pancras | 1897 | 43,200 | 11 | 7 | A aVl/V 8,699 | - | - | 34,501 | 11 | |
| Clare-market, Strand | „ | 413,988 | 18 | 2 | 353,850 | — | 2 | 60,138 | 18 | — |
| Aylesbury - place, Clerkenwell, and Union - buildings, Holborn | 1900 | 194,100 | 15 | - | 18,948 | 4 | 6 | 175,152 | 10 | 6 |
| Burford's - court, Tucker's - court and Favonia - street, Poplar | „ | 16,829 | 7 | 3 | 5,530 | 10 | — | 11,298 | 17 | 3 |
| Garden-row, Roby-street, Baltic-street and Honduras-street, St. Luke | „ | 120,632 | 13 | 3 | 13,860 | 11 | 6 | 106,772 | 1 | 9 |
| Webber-row and Wellington-place and King's Bench-walk, Southwark | 106,742 | 14 | — | 10,293 | 9 | — | 96,449 | 5 | - | |
| Nightingale-street, St. Marylebone | „ | 702 | 1 | - | 702 | 1 | - | |||
| Providence-place, Poplar | 1902 | 12,752 | 3 | 6 | 145 | 7 | 1 | 12,606 | 16 | 5 |
| Tabard-street and Grotto-place, Southwark and Crosby-row, Bermondsey | - | 82 | 19 | 6 | - | 82 | 19 | 6 | ||
| General | - | 449 | 3 | 7 | 449 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Total for Part I. | 3,254,579 | 6 | 11 | 866,173 | 17 | 10 | (a) 2,388,405 | 9 | 1 | |
| Part II. | ||||||||||
| (i) Schemes carried out by the Council— | ||||||||||
| Brooke's market, Holborn | 1892 | 8,929 | 15 | 6 | 3,857 | 14 | 10 | 5,072 | - | 8 |
| Mill-lane, Deptford | 1894 | 23,341 | 1 | 11 | 14,174 | 16 | 4 | 9,166 | 5 | 7 |
| Ann-street, Poplar | „ | 11,089 | 10 | 5 | 6,735 | 2 | — | 4,354 | 8 | 5 |
| Falcon-court, Borough | 1898 | 50,951 | 6 | 10 l | 15,798 | 10 | 1 | 35,152 | 16 | 9 |
| (ii.) Contributions to schemes carried out by the Local Authorities— | ||||||||||
| Green-street and Gun-street, Southwark | 1893 | 1,568 | 14 1 | 10 | - | 1,568 | 4 1 | 10 | ||
| Moira-place and Plumber's-place, Shoreditch | 1894 | 27,500 | — | — | - | 27,500 | — | - | ||
| Queen Catherine-court, Ratcliff | 1895 | 2,787 | 2 | 8 | - | 2,787 | 2 | 8 | ||
| London-terrace, St. George-in-the-East | „ | 682 | 8 | -- | - | 682 | 8 | - | ||
| King John's-court, Limehouse | 1899 | 6,429 | - | 8 | — | 6,429 | — | |||
| Fulford-street and Braddon-street, Rotherhithe | 1900 | 14,560 | — | - | — | 14,560 | — | — | ||
| Bran tome-place and Prospect-terrace, St. Pancras | 1904 | 13,850 | — | - | - | 13,850 | — | - | ||
| Norfolk-square, Islington | „ | 3,986 | 19 | 8 | - | 3,986 | 19 | 8 | ||
| Total for Part II | 165,676 | — | 6 | 40,566 | 3 | 3 | (a)125,109 | 17 | 3 | |
| Total for Parts I. and II. | 3,420,255 | 7 | 5 | 906,740 | 1 | 1 | 2,513,515 | 6 | 4 | |
(a) Before deducting proceeds of sales carried to Consolide bed Loans Fund.
Note The receipts are derived from sales of land and rents, and include amounts transferred from the accounts of the dwellings for the
housing values of the sites appropriated for that purpose. Under Pare II. they include contributions from Local Authorities.