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The local inquiry by the Minister of Health was held in October, 1920,
but nothing has yet been done with regard to clearing the area and re-housing.
(c) Prusom Street Area.- Official representation was made 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 re-arrangement 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 consisted of 79 houses in Red Lion Street, 2 in Red Lion Court, 17 in
Worcester Court and Worcester Street, 15 in Bostock Street, 9 in Chandler
Street, 5 in Taylor's Rents, 16 in Meeting House Alley, 14 in Watts Street,
22 in Raymond Street, 18 in Lowder Street, 23 in Greenbank, 6 in Choppin's
Court, 24 in Old Gravel Lane, 24 in Prusom Street, 10 in Clegg Street, 17 in
Rygate Street, 3 in Hilliard's Court, 6 in Ship Street, 12 in Queen's Head
Alley, 3 in High Street, Wapping, and 13 houses in Dundee Street.
There is a great deal of empty space as well as empty dilapidated houses
in this area. My suggestion to the London County Council was to prepare
a comprehensive scheme for re-building and to start building on the part of
the site which is now unoccupied. Having put up one block, the people in a
part of the occupied area could be accommodated, and their houses demolished.
When another block had been completed, this could be occupied, and so on,
until the whole area had been cleared with as little disturbance as possible.
The portion of the area between Red Lion Street and Dundee Street and
to the south of Greenbank has been cleared, and the rebuilding of blocks of
houses is now in progress.
(d) Limehouse Fields Area.—On May 11th, 1925, I made an official
representation under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts that certain
houses, courts or alleys were unfit for human habitation, and that the narrowness,
closeness and bad arrangement or the bad condition of the streets and
houses within the area, or the want of light, air and ventilation, or other
sanitary defects, etc., were dangerous or injurious to health, and that the most
satisfactory method of dealing with the evils connected with such houses,
courts or alleys was an improvement scheme for the re-arrangement and
reconstruction of the streets and houses within such area.
This area is in the north ward of the Parish of Limehouse, and is bounded
on the east by the Regent's Canal, on the north by Manning Street, and on
the south by Repton Street.