[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough] page 37

Holborn 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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Factories and Workshops.
There are 8-1 workshops and 44 factories registered in the Ward, employing
913 males and 366 females. It is important that such firms and other employers
in the vicinity should have a supply of labour residing in the neighbourhood.
There is no special industry peculiar to the Ward; more than 50 different
occupations are carried on in the various factories and workshops; the more
numerous are tailors and dressmakers 33, printers 15, and photographers 5.
Classification of Residential Property.
The residential property may be classed into four categories: —
(i) Good Class Houses and Flate.
Of these the best examples of the former are in Guilford Street and Queen
Square, and of the latter in Red Lion Square.
(ii) Less Expensive Houses and Flats.
These would include houses such as those* in Great Ormond Street and Orde
Hall Street, and flats such as those comprised in Bedford House in New North
Street.
(iii) Good Class Tenements.
In this category would be included houses in Princeton Street and Harpur
Street.

Table: (iv) Poorer Class Tenement Houses. These include all the houses in the Ward registered under the By-laws as to houses let in lodgings and other houses similarly occupied although not so registered. The houses in this category are in the following streets; the table gives the number of houses in the streets concerned that are, occupied as working class dwellings, the number registered as lodging houses and the number inspected in detail in connection with the present survey.

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(iv) Poorer Class Tenement Houses. These include all the houses in the Ward registered under the By-laws as to houses let in lodgings and other houses similarly occupied although not so registered. The houses in this category are in the following streets; the table gives the number of houses in the streets concerned that are, occupied as working class dwellings, the number registered as lodging houses and the number inspected in detail in connection with the present survey.

Street.	Houses used for workingclass dwellings.	Registeredunder By-laws.	Inspected in connection with Survey.
Dane Street	7	7	7
Devonshire Street	42	37	42
Eagle Street	6	6	6
East Street	32	5	32
Fisher Street	2	—	2
Harpur Mews	3	—	3
Lamb's Conduit Passage	13	4	13
New North Street	18	14	18
Old Gloucester Street	46	43	46
Old North Street	6	6	6
Ormond Yard	27	17	25
Princeton Street	5	—	4
Red Lion Passage	15	11	15
Red Lion Street	14	—	14
	236	150	233

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