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Reverse.
Date of Inspection Action necessary & action taken Inspected by
The principal defects noted were defects in connection with drains, water closets,
dust-bins, the paving of yards, rain water gutters, rain water pipes, windows and
frames, and flushing cisterns, dirty and uncovered storage cisterns, interior of premises
dirty, rooms overcrowded, water supplies from unsuitable cisterns, and offensive matter
requiring removal.
CLOTH FAIR IMPROVEMENT SCHEME.
During the year 1913 consideration was given to a report presented by your Medical
Officer of Health, which indicated that a small area in Cloth Fair was, for various
reasons, in an insanitary condition, and that the defects could only be remedied by means
of an improvement scheme. The Sanitary Committee reported to the Court of Common
Council to the effect that "Having carefully considered the whole of the circumstances,
we feel it is our duty to report that the area comprising sites Nos. 12 to 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26 (sites of), 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35 to 37, Cloth Fair, and
No. 1, Red Lion Passage, is insanitary, owing to its closeness, narrowness, and bad
arrangement, and that some of the buildings therein are in a defective condition and
require to be demolished or reconstructed and rearranged in order to remedy the evils.
In view of the fact, however, that to deal with such of these houses as are unfit for
human habitation under the City of London Sewers Acts, would not result in any great
or permanent improvement in the sanitary condition of the neighbourhood, and as it
appears that the area is too small to be dealt with under Part I. of the Housing of
the Working Classes Act, 1890, we are of opinion that action should be taken under
Part II. of that Act, and therefore beg to recommend that a formal resolution be passed
by your Honourable Court to this effect, as required by Section 39 of the said Act, and
directing the preparation of a scheme for the improvement of the area."
"We also recommend that we be authorised to take the necessary steps to carry
such a scheme into effect."
The above recommendation was approved by the Court, and the necessary
authority to proceed with the scheme was granted.
At the same time, the Court authorised action to be taken in respect of the property
referred to in the following certificate of your Medical Officer of Health.
"In accordance with the City of London Sewers Acts, 1848, 1851 and 1897, I hereby
Certify that, in my opinion, the premises known as Nos. 6, 7 and 8, Cloth Fair, are
permanently unwholesome and unfit for human habitation."
Notices were served in accordance with the legal requirements in respect of all the
the above property, and later the premises, numbered 23, Cloth Fair, were included for
the purpose of making the scheme more complete.