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This area is situated in St. George-in-the-East to the south of Commercial
Road. It is bounded on the west by Back Church Lane, on the east
by Berner Street, on the north by Boyd Street, and on the south by Ellen
Street.
It includes all the houses in Everard Street, Nos. '70 to 82 in Berner Street
2 to 52, Boyd Street, the houses on the north side of Ellen Street (Nos. 1
to 51).
The area consists of 112 houses with a population of 533.
The number of persons suffering from Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Erysipelas, Small Pox and Spotted Fever, was, in proportion, twice that for
the whole of the Borough of Stepney in 1916 and 1917, and eight times as
much in 1918.
In 1799 this area had a few houses adjoining Back Church Lane. The
remaining houses were built in the early part of the 19th century.
The narrowness, closeness, and bad arrangement of the streets and houses,
and the bad condition of the houses with sanitary defects connected therewith
are dangerous to health, and the most satisfactory method of dealing with
the evils connected with such houses is an improvement scheme for the rearrangement
and reconstruction of the houses and streets therein.
The local inquiry by the Minister of Health was held in October, 1920,
but the result of that inquiry has not yet been communicated to the Council.
(2) Prusom Street Area.—Official representation was made
to the London County Council on June 7th, 1920, that this Area was an
insanitary area, and that the most satisfactory method of dealing with the
evils connected with the houses was by an improvement scheme for the rearrangement
and reconstruction of the streets and houses within such area.
The area is bounded on the west by Red Lion Street and Dundee Street, on
the east by Ship Street and Queen's Head Alley, on the north by Worcester
Street, Watts Street and Prusom Street, and on the south by Greenbank,
Hilliard's Court and High Street, Wapping.
It consists of 79 houses in Red Lion Street, 2 houses in Red Lion
Court, 17 houses in Worcester Court and Worcester Street, 15 houses in
Bostock Street, 9 houses in Chandler Street, 5 houses in Taylor's Rents,
16 houses in Meeting House Alley, 14 houses in Watts Street, 22 houses in
Raymond Street, 18 houses in Lowder Street, 23 houses in Greenbank,
6 houses in Choppin's Court, 24 houses in Old Gravel Lane, 24 houses in
Prusom Street, 10 houses in Clegg Street, 17 houses in Rygate Street, 3 houses
in Hilliard's Court, 6 houses in Ship Street, 12 houses in Queen's Head Alley
3 houses in High Street, Wapping, and 13 houses in Dundee Street.