London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Bethnal Green 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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Sherwood Place—
Nos. 9 and 10 should be demolished as obstructive buildings.
The back-to-back houses in Mount Square and Turville
Buildings—namely, Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, Turville Buildings, and
3, 4, 6, 9, Mount Square—should be treated in the same
manner; also, the end walls between Turville Buildings and
George Terrace should be thrown down—the proper lighting
and ventilation of the remaining buildings could then be secured.
The Mortuary belonging to the Mission Hospital, which is
situated at the end of George Terrace, should also be removed.
Mount street: 73, 74—These houses are badly ventilated
and dilapidated.
No. 1—Dilapidated.
Nos. 1a and 2a have cellar entrances.
Short Street, Half Nichol Street: 1, 2, 3, 4—
These houses have cellar entrances and are dilapidated.
New Street, Mount Street —
The wall at the end of this street, dividing it from Newcastle
Street, should be removed as an obstructive building. The
sheds on the forecourts of 1, 2, 3, 4, New Street (South
side) should be removed as obstructive buildings.
No. 70, Virginia Road —
W.C. and other conveniences situated in a badly-ventilated cellar,
approached by a rotten step-ladder. The house is dilapidated.
Virginia Road: 9, 11, 13, 15—
Cellar entrances; houses old and rotten.
1, Gascoigne Place—
No yard; W.C. and other conveniences in dark unpaved cellar;
house dilapidated.