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TOWN PLANNING OF BUILT-UP AREAS.
MEMORANDUM OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
The process of industrialisation of the Borough is steadily proceeding, under
very little control, and without any consideration for the amenities of any particular
neighbourhood, and this process is occurring in four principal directions
1. By demolition of dwelling houses and erection of factories and workshops
on the vacant sites.
2. By conversion of dwelling houses into factories or workshops.
3. By conversion of parts of dwelling houses into a factory or workshop,
the remainder being retained as a dwelling.
4. By the erection of factories or workshops on the gardens or yards of
dwelling houses.
When I have described the extent to which industrialisation has taken place,
I will mention some of the difficulties experienced by the Public Health Department
as the result of the existing lack of control of the process. One minor
difficulty that arises is the very natural reluctance of owners who have bought
houses in order to demolish them and apply the sites to industrial purposes to
carry out sanitary repairs. Houses have been bought, for instance, with this
purpose in view in Middlesex Place, Milborne Street, Abbott Street, and Mead's
Place. A few weeks ago the owners of the London India Rubber Works in
Hackney Wick made the request that other accommodation should be found for
the tenants of Nos. 22 and 22a, Chapman Road, as the premises had been pur-
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