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that, as the Board's sanction is necessary before any bye-laws
can become operative, no effort will be spared to bring
about substantial if not verbal uniformity. The bye-laws to
be made by the Council Council, which will have to be
observed and enforced by the Sanitary Authority, should
have been sent to the said Authority at the commencement
of May—two months, that is, before the end of June, when
such bye-laws should be sent to the Local Government Board
for their sanction. At the present time (June) the said byelaws
have not been received from the Council, who are
required by the Act to consider any representation made by
the Sanitary Authority in relation thereto.
THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.
In my last Annual Report I dealt with the new legislation,
by which the Acts relating to the Housing of the
Working Classes had been consolidated and amended, and
gave a detailed account of the action of the London County
Council in connection with The Boundary Street Schemk,
for acquiring an "unhealthy area" in Bethnal Green, fifteen
acres in extent, at a net estimated cost, for the land and
laying out new streets, of £300,000, or £20,000 per acre—
equal to fifty guineas for each person resident in the area;
and this not to provide the people with dwellings, but only to
clear the land on which dwellings will be built by others for
letting at current rates. The formalities required by the Act
for an Improvement Scheme under Part I. have since been
completed, the Secretary of State having duly confirmed the
Order, and the Bill having (in July, 1891) received the Royal
Assent; the usual requests to owners and others to send in
claims have been served; various claims have been settled,
and others have been submitted to arbitration.
The Housing of the Working Classes Committee, in a
report dated 14th December, informed the Council that "the
estimate of the cost of purchasing the lands and houses in