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pany for the erection of suitable conveniences, as suggested, at a
cost, including the removal of the lamp column, of about £700.
The Grove
and
Ewer Street.
In order to obviate the confusion and inconvenience occasioned
by the similarity of the nomenclature of the two thoroughfares
known as Grove and The Grove, in Southwark Street, this Board
applied to the Metropolitan Board of "Works for an order to incorporate
the last-named (The Grove) with Ewer Street, under the
latter name, the two streets forming now one continuous thoroughfare,
and to re-number the houses and premises in Grove. This
has been done, an order having been issued by the Metropolitan
Board for the purpose on the 18th January last.
Red Cross
Place.
On the 1st August, 1883, this Board's Medical Officer of Health
made an Official Representation to the Metropolitan Board of
"Works, pursuant to the provisions of The Artisans' and Labourers'
Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, to the effect that a block of
houses in Red Cross Place, Red Cross Street, Borough, were in an
unsanitary condition, structurally defective, and unfit for human
habitation, and that the area was an unhealthy one within the
meaning of that Act. The Metropolitan Board some time afterwards
caused a survey to be made of the area in question, but, in
their judgment, it was too limited in size to come within the scope
of the Act, and they suggested that it should be dealt with by
other means. The Sanitary Committee of this Board thereupon
caused notices to be served upon the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
the owners, requiring them to put the premises into habitable
condition, with the result that some of the houses were cleansed
and others demolished. In December a letter was received from
the Local Government Board adverting to the condition of the
houses as set forth in the Medical Officer's Representation (a copy
of which had been forwarded to the Secretary of State), requesting
that the matter might be again brought under the notice of this
Board, and suggesting that if the circumstances were the same as
when the official representation was made, the provisions of
Torren's Act should be applied thereto. The circumstances had,
however, greatly changed, a large number of the houses having
been pulled down. In February last a communication was received
from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the effect that they were