The rapid expansion of the population of industrial cities and towns in the early years of the nineteenth century led to the growth of vast urban slums. The realization that overcrowded living conditions were a danger to public health resulted in several parliamentary investigations on town planning. Several Select Committees examined proposals for redeveloping parts of London. Parliament accepted a Select Committee recommendation and in 1855 the Metropolitan Board of Works was established (see IUP volume Planning 2). Towards the end of the century (1886-1892) parliament received a comprehensive series of reports from Select Commmittees on town holdings. These committees investigated the land tenure systems in force in towns throughout Great Britain and Ireland, landlord-tenant relations and municipal finance. One of the particularly valuable documents in these volumes is a census of housing (see IUP volume Planning 5) which includes details of leases and building operations in progress as well as of the number, quality and types of houses in two hundred and fifty large towns in England and Wales.
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