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will now be opened up and sufficient light and air admitted to enable the area to
be put into a thoroughly sanitary condition. The scheme ought certainly to
conduce to the general health of that part of the parish adjoining Bethnal Green,
and to the proper housing of the artizan population so largely predominant in the
condemned area.
(II) MOIRA PLACE AND PLUMBER'S PLACE AREA.
The Housing of the Working Classes Committee were instructed by the
Vestry, on the 17th February, 1891, to prepare a scheme for dealing with the
above area, under Section 39 of the "Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,"
and they accordingly prepared the following scheme, which gives the history of the
proceedings relating to the area, and the proposed method of reconstructing it.
Scheme.
The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
" Scheme under Part II. of the above Act, for the improvement of an Unhealthy
Area in East Eoacl, Nile Street, Custance Street, Moneyer Street, Plumber's
Place, Provost Street, Ebenezer Street, Moira Place and Britannia Street (hereinafter
called ' the said area') in the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditcli, in the
County of London."
PRELIMINARY.
" Whereas on the 26th of April, 1890, au official representation under the Artizans
and Labourers' Dwelliugs Improvement Acts, 1875 & 1879, was made to the
London County Council by Henry Gawen Sutton, M.D., the Medical Officer of
Health for the said Parish in relation to the houses comprised in the said area ;
And whereas the London County Council resolved that (inter alia) the said area was not
of general importance to the Metropolis, and should be dealt with under the
Artizans and Labourers' Dwelling Acts, 1868-1882 ;
And whereas upon such resolution being submitted by the London County Council to
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of
State, pursuant to Section 5 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885,
appointed an arbitrator, who held a local inquiry, and made a report to the effect
that the case was of general importance to the County of London ;
And whereas such report having been made and applied under the provisions of the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Section 73, (1) the Secretary of State
decided that the said area should be dealt with under Part II. of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890, and that the London County Council ought to contribute
one-half of the expense of dealing with the same ;
And whereas on the 17th day of February, 1891, the Vestry of the said Parish as the
Local Authority, passed a resolution in reference to the said area to the effect of