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Rotherhithe 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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stalments, the proposed rents will not equal the expenditure by £110 per annum; but it
must not be forgotten that you are for that amount gradually redeeming the principal of the
loan or mortgage, and that at the end of 50 years, by a contribution of £110 per annum, or
a total of £5,500, the whole of the freehold of land and buildings, without encumbrance, has
been secured.
Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee, that the plan prepared by the
Surveyor for covering the area when cleared be approved and adopted, and a copy of such
plan forwarded to the London County Council for their approval, and that consideration of
the question as to who shall carry the Scheme into execution be deferred until a plan shall
have been agreed upon by the London County Council.
The before-mentioned plan having failed to satisfy the requirements of the London County
Council, a second one was prepared, and
On 17th January, 1899, the Sanitary Committee reported the Surveyor had failed to satisfy
the views of the Medical Officer of Health and Architect of ihe London County Council by
his second plan of proposed buildings to be???rected upon the Fulford Street and Braddon
Street area when the existing houses should be demolished, and he had ascertained from the
Local Government Board that it was useless to approach them until the Vestry and the
Council were in agreement in the matter.
Resolved [Rev. Canon Beck: Mr. Brown]—That it be an instruction to the Surveyor
to submit to the Sanitary Committee at the earliest possible moment a further plan calculated
to satisfy the requirements of the "Council.
On 7th March, 1899, the Sanitary Committee reported with reference to the following report
of the Surveyor:—
I am pleased to be able to report that I have at last succeeded in preparing a plan for
the laying out of the insanitary area which has been approved by the London County Council,
the open quadrangle to be retained, the buildings to consist of 11 blocks, 5 stories in
height, consisting of 110 3-roomed tenements, 30 2-roomed tenements, and 55 1-roomed tenements,
with accommodation for 890 persons, being 340 persons more than at present upon
the area