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In Sarah Street, those numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 14a, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 26a.
In Eliza Place, those numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
In Crooked Billet Yard, those numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
In Windsor Place, those numbered 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25.
In Basing House Yard, those numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and two
stables (north and south).
All in the Parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in the County of London, are
dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the said buildings or
of the neighbouring buildings, and that the most satisfactory method of dealing
with the said evils is by the demolition or the reconstruction or re arrangement
of the said buildings, or some of them, and that the area comprising the said
buildings, and the yards, outhouses and the appurtenances thereof, and the site
thereof, is too small to be dealt with by an improvement scheme.
(b) That this Council hereby direct a reconstruction scheme to be prepared
for the improvement of the said area under Section 37 of the Housing Act, 1925.
It has been explained that the extra work falling upon the Sanitary Inspectors,
in connection with smallpox, during the latter months of the year, interfered with
their routine duties. As a result, the programme of house to house inspection
approved by the Health Committee was not carried out in its entirety. The number
of houses that should have been inspected was 3,335. The number actually inspected
was 2,050.
The work of improving the lighting of the staircases of the tenement buildings
in the Borough in accordance with Section 61 of the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1927, which was commenced in 1928, was completed during the year
under consideration. At the end of the year the lighting of all these staircases was
satisfactory.
The houses let in lodgings on the register at the end of the year numbered 389.
The number of Intimation Notices served in relation to these houses was 296.
No applications were made for Certificates under the Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restriction) Acts.
Overcrowding.
The number of cases of overcrowding brought to the notice of the Department
was 132, of which 88 were remedied. Unfortunately those cases which it is possible
to remedy are not generally speaking the worst cases.
Overcrowding is due to the interaction of many causes, of which the
disproportion between earnings and rent is the most important. Poor people with
large families are those who have to live under the most overcrowded conditions
and for whom alternative accommodation is most urgently required, but these are the
very families for whom this is most difficult to find. No apology is made for again
referring to a proposal contained in a resolution of this Council that free or assisted
travel facilities should in certain cases be available for workers in overcrowded areas
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