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may bo expected as the result of the scheme, more than compensates
for the cost.
Your Committee in their report, presented on the 22nd April last
dealt with the re-housing of people displaced under such a scheme as
this, and expressed the opinion that they should, if possible, have some
means of re-housing. however temporarily, some of those displaced.
Your Committee have taken steps to ascertain what vacant land, if
any, exists in the vicinity, and hope to embody the information
obtained in a later report. It is not. however, the intention of the
Committee. if the scheme is approved by the Council, to clear the
whole area at once, but rather to deal with it in sections, and thus
avoid the necessity of disturbing more than a limited number at a time.
The plan which your Committee propose to adopt for the completion
of the scheme, in accordance with the Act, is submitted herewith for
the information of the Council, also the reports of the Medical Officer
of the Council and of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green.
Your Committee draw the attention of the Council to the fact that
the 28th of October is the latest day upon which the area can be dealt
with under a scheme without a year's delay, as part 1 of the Act of
1890, prescribes that advertisements must be published in three
consecutive weeks in the month of November. Your Committee
submit the following formal recommendations—
(a) That subject to the necessary estimate being submitted to the Council by
the Finance Committee, as required by the statute, the requisite resolution under
section 4 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, be passed by the
Council, and that the seal of the Council be affixed thereto.
(b) That the draft scheme submitted by the Committee for the improvement
of the area referred in the said resolution, be approved, and that it bo referred
to the Committee to complete the scheme, and take all the necessary steps for
depositing and obtaining confirmation thereof.
COMPTON,
Chairman.
After much discussion and one or two adjournments, the following
resolution (referred to in the above recommendation) was passed:
"Whereas Henry Gawen Sutton, M D., Medical Officer of Health for
the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in the County of London, and
George Paddock Bate, M.D, Medical Officer of Health for the Parish
of St. Matthew. Bethnal Green, in the said County, have, pursuant to
section 4 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act. 1890, made
official representations to us, the London County Council, respectively
bearing date the 16th day of September and the 15th day of October,
1890, with reference to certain areas within the Parishes of St. Matthew,
Bethnal Green and St. Leonard, Shoreditch, aforesaid, and within the