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Holborn 1899

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1899

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Medical Officer's Report.
The butchers' shops, stalls, slaughter-houses, and also the provision
warehouses, &c., were regularly inspected by the Meat Inspector.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
There is a large and increasing number of factories and workships in the
District.
Many more of these have this year been inspected, and the sanitary defects
have been remedied.
The Factory Inspectors of the Home Office have supplied us with
information concerning a few of these.
HOUSES CLOSED VOLUNTARILY, DEMOLISHED, REBUILT, &c.
8, 9, and 10, Brownlow Street, demolished for extension of Fifth Avenue
1, 2, 3, and 4, Warwick Place, Hotel.
90 and 91, High Holborn, being rebuilt.
8 and 9, Gray's Inn Passage, new warehouse, being built.
51, Gray's Inn Road, do. do.
70, Lamb's Conduit Street, new post office, flats, and shop, rebuilt.
Edwards' Stables, Eagle Street, new stables and warehouses.
Dalmeny Mansions, built.
Italian Hospital, rebuilt.
" Three Cups," public house, Sandland Street. 21, Sandland Street taken
into " Three Cups," public house, being rebuilt.
2 and 3, John's Place, houses closed, reported coming down.
Boswell Buildings, Boswell Court, new warehouses on site of Nos. 2, 3,
4, 5, and 6, Boswell Court.
1, Boswell Court. House closed to be rebuilt.
4 and 5, Fullwood's Rents, new warehouses built.
85, Leather Lane, premises rebuilt for clothing store.
25, Southampton Buildings (the Patent Office), being rebuilt.
36, Verulam Street, demolished, and factory built on site.
37. do.
Furnival's Inn, demolished for the extension of the "Prudential Life
Assurance "buildings, which are now being built.
Reid's Brewery, being demolished.
326 to 332 (inclusive), High Holborn, demolished for Birkbeck Bank
extension.
5 to 9, Staple Inn Buildings, demolished for Birkbeck Bank extension.