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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
St Pancras 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Prospect Terrace.
| Floor. | One Room. | Two Rooms. | Three Rooms. | Four Rooms. | Total number of Rooms. | Number of Flats. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground | .. | 5 | 6 | .. | 28 | 11 |
| First | . . | 5 | 6 | .. | 28 | 11 |
| Second | . . | 7 | 6 | .. | 32 | 13 |
| Third | .. | 6 | .. | 32 | 13 | |
| Fourth | . . | 5 | 6 | .. | 28 | 11 |
| Fifth | .. | 5 | 6 | .. | 28 | 11 |
| Total | 34 | 36 | .. | 176 | 70 |
| Floor. | Weekly rent of each one-room Flat. | Weekly rent of each two-room Flat. | Weekly rent of each three-room Flat. | Weekly rent of each four-room Flat. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | S. | d. | s. | d. | ||||
| Ground | .. | 7 | 6 | 11 | 0 | & | 11 | 6 | .. |
| First | .. | 8 | 0 | 11 | 6 | & | 12 | 0 | .. |
| Second | .. | 8 | 0 | 11 | 6 | & | 12 | 0 | .. |
| Third | .. | 7 | 11 | 0 | & | 11 | 6 | .. | |
| Fourth | .. | 7 | 11 | 0 | & | 11 | 6 | .. | |
| Fifth . . .. | .. | 7 | 0 | 10 | 6 | & | 11 | 0 | .. |
Compton Place Hunter Place, and Poplar Place.—In 1885 the houses in
Poplar PJace were vacated and subsequently demolished, and the houses in
Hunter Place and Compton Place have been vacated in pairs and groups and
subsequently demolished, until the whole site bounded by the rears of the
houses in Judd Street, Leigh Stseet, Marchmont Street and Compton Street
has been cleared. A. most insanitary area has finally disappeared, and the
site has now passed into the hands of the Metropolitan Police, and these
insalubrious "Places" will be known no more, and their names will be
forgotten.
WEIR'S PASSAGE, EUSTON ROAD, N.W.
The Health Committee reported on the 4th September, 1895, to the late
Yestry of St. Pancras, that they had considered a representation of the Medical
Officer of Health, made under Part 2 of the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, dated 8th August, 1895, that the dwelling-house premises, Nos. 1,
5, 7, 9, 11 (South Side), and Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 (North Side), Weir's Passage,
Chalton Street, Somers Town, appear to him to be in a state so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation.