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 1914
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1914
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Systematic House to House Inspection—continued.
| Street, Place, or Buildings. | No. of houses inspected. | No. of houses in which defects were found. | Percentage of houses with defects to houses inspected | Families occupying. | Number of rooms. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Occupied. | Empty. | Overcrowded. | |||||
| Rawstorne Street | 42 | 7 | 16.6 | 103 | 281 | 272 | 9 | 0 |
| Red Lion Street | 18 | 13 | 72.2 | 76 | 171 | 146 | 25 | 0 |
| St. James Street | 11 | 6 | 54.5 | 45 | 85 | 85 | 0 | 1 |
| St. John Street | 40 | 12 | 30.0 | 69 | 238 | 226 | 12 | 0 |
| Smithfield Buildings | 15 | 0 | .0 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Spa Cottages | 9 | 2 | 22.2 | 13 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Stewart's Place | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Union Pl., Clerkenwell CI. | 0 | .0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Valetta Street | 2 | 16 .6 | l6 | 49 | 49 | 0 | 0 | |
| Warden's Place | 5 | 2 | 40.0 | 18 | 42 | 40 | 2 | 0 |
| Warner Street | 5 | 3 | 60.0 | 13 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo Street | 23 | 88.4 | 58 | 129 | 126 | 3 | 0 | |
| West Place | 3 | 42. 8 | 17 | 31 | 25 | 6 | 0 | |
| White Conduit Street | 19 | 10 | 52.6 | 32 | 110 | 99 | 11 | 0 |
| Whitecross Street | 70 | 24 | 34.2 | 89 | 381 | 373 | 8 | 0 |
| Wynyatt Street | 58 | 15 | 25.8 | 135 | 380 | 372 | 8 | 3 |
| Totals | 1,071 | 381 | 35.6 | 2,092 | 5,713 | 5,402 | 311 | 9 |
The numbers of houses inspected similarly in previous years
were 1,476, 1,501, 1,447, 1,548, 2,250, 1,341, 806, 534, 789,
1,355, 888, 1,336, and 971 from 1901 to 1913 respectively.
Crowding and Overcrowding.—During the year, 103
cases of overcrowding were discovered and abated—38 of these
were in registered houses. Nine were detected as the result of
systematic house-to-house inspection.
The largest number of overcrowded tenements were in Risinghill
Street (5), Goswell Road (4), Vineyard Walk (4), Albert Street
(3), Donegal Street (3), Southampton Street (3), Mitre Court (3),
Northampton Road (3), James Gardens (2), Winchester Cottages
(2), Lever Street (2), Amias Place (2), Gee Street (2), Hatfield
Street (2), Peerless Street (2), Great Bath Street (2), Easton
Street (2), Easton Place (2), Margaret Street (2), Sadler Street
(2), and Baker's Row (2). In the area covered by systematic