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PARISH OF ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
NORFOLK SQUARE AREA IMPROVEMENT SCHEME.
Report from Public Health Committee.
To the Vestry of St. Mary, Islington.
Your Public Health Committee, having considered the
reference from the Vestry of the 18th December, 1891,
directing it to prepare a scheme for dealing with the Norfolk
Square area, and to submit the same to the Vestry, begs to
report as follows:—
An official representation as to the state of the area was made by
the late Dr. Tidy, Medical Officer of Health of this Parish, to the
London County Council on the 24th June, 1889. In this representation
he stated as follows:—"In pursuance of the provisions of the
"Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, I hereby
"make an official representation to the effect that the houses situated in
"the undermentioned courts, alleys and places in the Parish of St.
"Mary, Islington, and within a certain area as hereafter defined, are unfit
"for human habitation, and that the evils connected with such houses,
"courts, and alleys, and the sanitary defects in such area cannot be
"effectually remedied otherwise than by an improvement scheme for
"the re-arrangement and re-construction of the houses within such area
"as provided for by the aforesaid Act.
"The courts and places referred to contain the houses situated in
"the block of buildings lying between Ecclesbourne Road and Morton