London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1900
Some notes on the housing question in Finsbury...
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63
Acres.
Persons per House.
Persons per Acre.
1851
1861
1871 ,
1881
1891
1901
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1901
St. James 74 9.6 .9.8 10.6 9.0 13.1 10.8 290 258 259 239 230 211
Amwell 83 9.7 10.1 10.6 11.8 10.2 11.1 191 210 203 232 203 213
Pentonville 70 7.9 8.3 8.4 9.1 11.3 171 188 195 216 241
Goswell 91 8.3 8.5 8.5 9.0 8.4 9.4 173 177 178 192 168 169
City Road 125 8.5 9.0 9.5 9.5 10.0 11.1 217 233 245 243 235 203
Whitecross 34 8.6 9.4 9.6 11.1 14.8 13.4 426 461 431 288 258 89
Finsbury 78 8.1 8.3 8.7 9.1 10.4 223 222 137 95 63
Charterhouse 10 — — — — — — 27 25 27 16 13 12
St. Sepulchre, etc 19 9.1 9.9 9.2 8.6 10.3 8.6 254 242 152 125 103 94
Glasshouse Yard 5 8.5 8.5 8.2 1.0 11.2 295 291 246 186 155
589 8.7 9.1 9.4 9.1 10.6 10.9 221 227 212 191 190 172
London as a whole 7.7 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.7 8.0 31 37 43 51 56 61