View report page

42
2. The dwellings for the working classes to be erected, shall be
built in 6 blocks; one of 6 storeys, and 5 of 5 storeys, and one of such
remaining blocks shall be constructed to serve as a registered Lodging
House, to accommodate 240 persons.
3. Each block on every storey, according to the number and size of
the buildings, to be furnished with water-closets, sinks with water
supply, and dust shoots; arrangements to be made for providing
standing room for trucks and store rooms for costermongers' goods ;
when the buildings shall have been acquired, to be taken down and
removed by sections of buildings, and new buildings erected according
to regulations made by the Metropolitan Board of Works.
4. Princes Street shall be widened to 40 feet between Drury Lane
and Great Wild Street.
The eastern end of Great Wild Street shall be widened to 40 feet.
I am happy to say that the conditions imposed by the Secretary of
State have been agreed to, and I hope soon to be in a position to report
that the demolition of this unhealthy and notorious portion of the
district has been accomplished, and the way cleared for erecting new
and healthy dwellings for the working classes of the neighbourhood.
Representation No. 2 (Little Coram Street area).—The Works and
General Purposes Committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works
inspected the property on this area on the 4th of August last, but no
scheme respecting it has yet been prepared by that Board.
It is gratifying to be able to state that the health of St. Giles
district continues to be satisfactory, for the death-rate is nearly the
same as that of last year, and is a great encouragement to the Board
to persevere in its sanitary work.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
S. R. LOVETT,
Medical Officer of Health.
June, 1878.