Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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IIOUNlffU OF Till-: WOKKIMi CLANNKN ACT
queen CATHERINE COURT AREA
In Octobcr. 1893. an Order was made by the Local
Government Hoard lor sanctioning the scheme for the improvement
of this area, subject to the following conditions viz :—
" (ay Suitable dwellings, according to plans to be prepared
" by the Local Authority, and agreed upon between them and
u the London County Council, -hall be erected on the area com"
prised in the Scheme for the accommodation of one hundred
M and eight persons of the working class:
• I'roviiled that 111 the event of a difference arising between
"the I .oca I Authority and the London County Council with
" rcHpecl to such plans, the same shall be referred to us, and
" our decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
" (I If within one year from the time when the said area
M shall have been cleared, such dwellings as herein before
" mentioned for jiersons of the working class have not been
M erected thereon, the Local Authority shall, unless we shall
" otherwise Order, themselves erect such dwellings ; and, for the
" purpose of defraying the cost of the erection H such dwellings.
• the Local Authority may borrow money, and, as regards the
" borrowing of such money and the repayment thereof, the
"provisions of Sections 183 to 191 of the .Metropolis ManagcM
ment Act, 1855, as applied by sub-section (2) of Section 46 of
" the Act, shall, notwithstanding anything in the Scheme
"contained, apply as if uch purpose were one of the purposes
** for which money may be borrowed under that sub-section.
M (*). All lands on which any buildings shall be erected or
" provided in pursuance of the Scheme shall, for a period of
" twenty-five years from the date of their erection, be appropriated
" for the purpose of dwellings ; and every conveyance, demise,
" or lease of such lands and buildings shall be endorsed with
" notice of this provision."