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Shoreditch 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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conditions for those employed therein. The insanitary condition of so many
bakehouses is due in great measure to the way in which the legislature have dealt
with them from time to time, placing them for one period under one authority,
and at another period under a different body. I consider that all places in which
food is prepared for sale should be under systematic inspection.
HOUSES CLOSED DURING THE YEAR 1892 AS UNFIT FOR HABITATION.
| Closed under Public Health (London) Act:— | ||
|---|---|---|
| Whitmore Road, 47 & 49 | 2 | |
| New North Place, 1 to 4 | 4 | |
| Cotton's Gardens, 1 to 20 | 20 | |
| Weymouth Terrace, 86 | 1 | |
| Whitecross Place, 15 | 1 | |
| Lee's Buildings, 1 to 10 | 10 | |
| Hoxton Square, 21 | 1 | |
| 39 | ||
| St. John's Terrace | 3 | |
| Marsom Street | 7 | |
| 10 | ||
| Preedy's Buildings | 7 | |
| Boundary Street | 3 | |
| 10 | ||
| Total | 59 |
With the exception of the houses in Whitmore Road, it may be said the
houses in the first group were practically closed voluntarily. I saw the owners in
each case and represented to them the condition in which the property was in, and
they agreed that they would close them on receipt of notice to do so.
Whitmore Road, Nos. 47 and 49.—Notices were served upon these
houses requiring certain works to be carried out, but the owner rather than do so
when legal action was threatened, elected to close them.
New North Place, Nos. 1 to 4.—These four houses have no back yards,
the waterclosets are in the basements and the houses are old and worn out. The
front areas encroached upon the roadway of New North Place, and a good