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erection of working-class dwellings at reasonable
rents;
and that the surveyor and the medical officer of health
proceed meanwhile with reports, for the use of the Committee,
upon any area or buildings within the parish to
which the attention of the Vestry or their successors may
be called in this connection.
The following joint report by medical officer of health and
the surveyor was presented to the Public Health Committee
on September 13th, 1900
13th September, 1900.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the resolution of the Vestry on the
21st July last, we have visited various areas in the parishes,
and find that those most likely to come within the meaning
of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
and the Local Government Act, 1899, would be Williamsplace
in Tufton-street, York-buildings in Grubb-street, and
Blue Anchor-court in Great Peter-street; each is a
cul-ile-sac, and is without means of through ventilation.
Williams-place comprises an area of about 4,140 square
feet, has 6 houses with 12 tenements, housing about 40
people.
Nos. 1 to 9, York-buildings, Grubb-strest, which is
within the area proposed to be taken by the London
County Council's Embankment Improvement Scheme, are
two-roomed cottages, standing upon an area, including the
forecourt, of about 3,772 square feet, and housing about
45 people.
Nos. 2 to 6, Blue Anchor-court, standing upon an area,
including the forecourt, of about 3,450 square feet, are
four-roomed cottages, housing about 35 people.
We should also like to draw the Committee's attention
to a badly-designed block of buildings in Tufton-street,
viz., "Lion Buildings," not with the idea that the Vestry
could proceed against such under the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, as there is through ventilation and
the building is structurally good; but with a view of at
some future time entering into negotiations with the
owners for the purchase thereof, and erecting upon the
site more suitable dwellings.