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23 NOVEMBER, 1892.
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cluding the property on the East side of Lewin's Buildings,
were an area which should be properly dealt with under
Section 39 of the Act, and accordingly on the 5th August,
1891, recommended your Board to pass the requisite Resolutions.
Upon the Report being brought up, consideration of the
matter was adjourned for seven weeks, and on October 2nd,
1891, the matter was referred to a Committee of the Whole
Board for consideration and report.
The Committee of the Whole Board surveyed the site, and
on the 14th October, 1891, presented a Report to the Vestry
that the insanitary matters existing in the area could be dealt
with under the sanitary provisions of the Act, and recommended
that it was inadvisable to pass the Resolutions
recommended by your Committee.
The Representations having being sent, pursuant to statute,
to the London County Council, were referred to the Public
Health and Housing of the Working Classes Committee of
the Council, who have kept the matter in view, and (the
Vestry not having taken any steps dealing with either of the
houses in the Representation as Obstructive Buildings,) on
the nth October, 1892, gave notice to the Vestry that unless
the Vestry proceeded within a month to deal with Xos. 2 and
3 Lewin's Buildings as Obstructive Buildings, the Committee
would recommend the Council to take proceedings in default.
That having regard to the various questions which existed,
your Committee deemed it advisable that they should have
power to confer with the Committee of the Council upon the
matter, and on the 26th October, 1892, it was so recommended
to the Vestry, and the Vestry adopted the recommendation.
That your Committee met a Sub-Committee of the Council
Committee on the spot, and inspected not only the two
houses referred to, but also the surrounding property.
That your Committee on Monday the 14th inst. again
waited upon the Council Committee at Spring Gardens and
had a lengthy discussion on the subject matter, and received
from the Chairman an unofficial promise that the Committee
would recommend the Council to grant the usual contribution
in case the Vestry should see fit to carry out the Improvement
Scheme, rather than merely to pull down the two Obstructive
Buildings.
That your Committee have, therefore, again gone into the
subject matter, and consider that although the cost will undoubtedly
be considerably more, nevertheless a much greater
advantage would be derived by the carrying out of the
Scheme, rather than to pull down two Obstructive Buildings;
and accordingly recommend-