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('d) St. George's— cont.
Mr. Roper.
Black Eagle Street. Pools Square.
Duval Street. Pope's Head Court.
Frying Pan Alley. Quaker Street.
Harrisons Court. Quaker Square.
Little Pearl Street. Shepherd Street Buildings.
Mr. Twynham.
Easington Buildings. Pelham Street.
Flower and Dean Street. Perry's Avenue.
Mason's Court. Ramar Place.
Montague Houses. Sir George's Residences.
Montague Place.
Mr. Vogler.
Augustine House. Osborn House.
Bulwer House. Pelham House.
Clinton House. Regal Place.
Lytton House. Selby Street.
Nelson Place. Victoria Cottages.
Overcrowding.
This is a heartbreaking problem at the present time—heartbreaking for
the overcrowded families, heartbreaking for the officials and voluntary workers
who discover the cases of overcrowding and still more heartbreaking for the
Medical Officer of Health to whom such cases are referred.
What is the solution? The Housing Bill, 1935, in itself is not a solution,
except that there will be a subsidy for the rehousing of overcrowded families.
Now that a standard of overcrowding will be fixed, a more accurate knowledge
of the amount of overcrowding will be possible, and therefore an accurate
knowledge of the amount of rehousing accommodation required to abate that
overcrowding will be obtained. That, however, will not produce the houses
by which overcrowding will be abolished.
Taking the Census of 1931 as a basis, it is estimated that additional
accommodation for at least 14,128 persons will be required. Where can this
extra accommodation be obtained?
It is obvious that a large proportion of these persons must be rehoused
outside the Borough, but it is also obvious that few of them can afford to live
as far out as Becontree. It is obvious that some accommodation outside the
Borough must be found and that the accommodation must be within reasonable
distance of Stepney. In this the Council are helpless, so does it not mean
that the London County Council must produce the necessary accommodation?
Without it a solution of the overcrowding problem in Stepney is impossible.