Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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transport factor enters into the problem, but where
space is available for building to the ideal of " one
family, one house," local authorities might well have
been invested with more definite restrictive powers. In
vulnerable areas where adequate air raid protection has
to be devised, the congregating of many families into
large blocks of buildings would appear to increase the
problem of the best protective measures to be adopted.
The encouraging of the. housing of the populace in single
house units would appear to be a policy to be adopted
so long as civil defence measures are imperative, and,
incidentally, evacuation of population would in part be
achieved.
The following table shows that 595 acres of land have been secured or reserved for public recreation within the Borough: —
Acres. | Roods. | Poles. | Acres. | Roods. | Poles. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
61 | 1 | 36 | ||||
Keston Common | 55 | 1 | 24 | |||
Hayes Common (including Pickhurst Green) | 213 | 1 | 32 | |||
Hollydale | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||
New Street Hill | 11 | 2 | 8 | |||
Southborough | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
Turpington | 1 | 3 | 10 | 355 | 3 | 30 |
9 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Martin's Hill | 12 | 0 | 29 | |||
Oakley Road | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
Queen's Mead | 10 | 3 | 15 | |||
Widmore | 3 | 1 | 28 | |||
Whitehall | 17 | 1 | 6 | |||
Norman Park (reserved) | 56 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 3 | 38 |
12 | 3 | 20 | ||||
Hayes (Old) Rectory Grounds | 2 | 0 | 25 | |||
Husseywell Crescent | 2 | 1 | 30 | |||
Library Gardens | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
Queen's Garden | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
The Knoll | 4 | 1 | 39 | 25 | 2 | 38 |
492 | 2 | 26 | ||||
103 | 1 | 0 |