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AREA No. I.
Great Pearl-street, Spitalfields. Crown-court, Spitalfields.
Little Pearl-street, „ New-court, do.
Grey Eagle Street—part of east-side Wilk-court, do.
adjacent to Great Pearl-street Half Wilk-court do.
Vine-court, Spitalfields. Diamond-court, do.
AREA No. II.
King-street, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, Spitalfields.
Matthew's-buildings in rear of above.
Signed by Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co., and 33 other persons or firms.
The following is a copy of the official representation made to the
Metropolitan Board of Works on the above communication.
In the Matter of the Aktizans' and Labobbebs' Dwellings' Impbovement Act, 1875—
To the Metropolitan Board of Works, the Local Authority as regards the
Metropolis appointed by the said Act—
Gentlemen,
I, the undersigned John Liddle, the Medical Officer of Health of
the District of Whitechapel within the Metropolis, have received a communication
in writing, signed by thirty-four persons liable to be rated as in the said Act
mentioned (a copy of which communication I send herewith) complaining to me of
the unhealthy condition of certain areas, comprising—Area No. I.: Great Pearlstreet,
Little Pearl-street, Grey Eagle-street, part of east side adjacent to Great
Pearl-street, Vine-court, Crown-court, New-court, Wilk-court, Half Wilk-court and
Diamond-court, and—Area No. II., King-street, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, and
Matthew's-buildings in rear thereof; all of which are in the Parish of Spitalfields,
in the County of Middlesex, within your jurisdiction.
In accordance with the provisions contained in the before-mentioned Act I
have inspected the Areas referred to in such complaint, and I hereby make an
official representation to your Board that by reason of the closeness, narrowness,
and bad arrangement, as well as by reason of the bad condition of the several
streets, courts, and houses within an area which forms part of the Area No. I
complained of are unfit for habitation, and that diseases indicating a generally low
condition of health amongst the population have been from time to time prevalent
there, and the death-rate of such population has been excessive. I further desire
to represent that the evils connected with such houses, courts and alleys, and the
sanitary defects in such area, cannot be effectually remedied otherwise than by an
improvement scheme for the re-arrangement and re-construction of the streets and
houses within the area extending on (he south from the rear of the building known
as the Royal Cambridge Music Hall in Commercial-street, eastward along a portion
of Vine-court and a portion of Little Pearl-street, to the rear of a building used
as a bacon store in Grey Eagle-street; bounded on the east partly by the rear of