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remedy for the evils within it, and intimating that the Committee were
prepared to recommend the London County Council to contribute one
half the cost of a scheme, if it proved to be one with which they were
satisfied.
On the 14th October, 1891, the area was again viewed by the
Sanitary Committee, when the Medical Officer of Health submitted a
farther report as to the population and the size of the houses. On the
19th October, the Committee resolved, in consideration of the offer of
the London County Council to contribute one-half the cost, to
recommend to the Vestry that an improvement Scheme under the
Housing of the Working Classes Act be prepared, the Chief Surveyor
being at the same meeting requested to make a ground plan of the
area.
The Sanitary Committee reported in accordance with this resolution
to the Vestry on the 20th November, but the recommendation was not
adopted, and the matter was referred back to the Committee to consider
whether proceedings should not be taken for closing orders under the
32nd Section of the Housing of the Working Classes Act. The Sanitary
Committee, after considering this reference, recommended that such
proceedings should be taken in the case of Concord Buildings and Lindsey
Cottages, and this recommendation was considered by the Vestry on
4th December. No decision, however, was then arrived at by the
Vestry, it being understood that steps were being taken by the owners to
put the houses into habitable condition. On the 14th December, the
Sanitary Committee again viewed the area, and resolved to include the
houses No. 1 to 6, Norfolk Gardens among those in respect of which
closing orders should be applied for, and on the 18th of the same month
the Vestry adopted the recommendation of the Sanitary Committee to
apply for closing orders for Concord Buildings, Lindsey Cottages, and
Norfolk Gardens.
The Vestry at the same meeting resolved as follows
"That it appearing to the Vestry, as the Local Authority under
"Part 2 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
"that the closeness, narrowness, and bad arrangement, and
"bad condition of the following buildings, viz.:—