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Row, to Castle Street (which is to be widened on both
sides), and thence, across Hemming's Row to St. Martin's
Place (which is to be widened on its west side), to Trafalgar
Square, the eastern carriage-way of which is also to
be widened.
These new streets will, when completed, form most
important and convenient lines of thoroughfare; their
formation has been retarded by various causes, but the
Metropolitan Board has recently resolved to proceed with
them, and (as I am informed) is now taking measures to
acquire the various properties necessary to be pulled down
for their formation. It may be therefore confidently anticipated
that within the next two or three years the streets
will be formed and opened to the public traffic.
Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1875.
In 1876, the Metropolitan Board of Works, acting under
the powers of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act,
1875, prepared a Scheme, dealing with a block of property
in Drury Lane, Kemble Street, and Great Wild Street,
which your Medical Officer of Health had reported to that
Board as being dangerous to health and unfit for human
habitation. The Scheme was confirmed by an Act passed
in 1877, entitled Metropolis (Great Wild Street, &c.)
Improvement Schemes Confirmation Act, 1877.
Under the provisions of the said Acts, the Metropolitan
Board of Works acquired and pulled down the property so
condemned, and cleared the site, which was then disposed of
to the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, and new buildings for
the accommodation of the labouring classes have since been
erected on the site.