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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.
85, Great Saffron Hill, warehouse and offices erected.
151 and 152, Great Saffron Hill, being built.
121, Great Saffron Hill, factory and workshops built.
109 and 111, Charterhouse street, being built.
2, Bleeding Heart Yard, new workshops built.
22 and 23, Charles Street, rebuilt.
57, St. John's Street, " White Bear," public house, rebuilt.
59, St. John's Street, workshops built.
63, St. John's Street, workshops built.
1 a, New Court, stables and dwellings built.
Gamage's new premises, Holborn and Leather Lane, rebuilt and extended.
Booth's Distillery, 55, Cowcross Street, being rebuilt.
HOUSE TO HOUSE INSPECTION.
Boswell Court.
Emerald Street.
Fulwood's Rents.
Eagle Street (greater part).
Gloucester Street (part).
Devonshire Street (part).
Leigh Street.
Robert Street (part).
Lamb's Conduit Passage.
Portpool Lane.
Verulam Street.
Providence Place.
Baldwin's Place.
Dove Court.
Half-Moon Court.
Union Terrace and Buildings.
Italian Colony (all).
Little Saffron Hill.
Great Saffron Hill (greater part).
Charles Street (greater part).
Mitre Court.
Hat and Mitre Court.
Benjamin Street.
Peter's Lane.
Pump Court.
White Horse Alley.
Glasshouse Yard (greater part).
"HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890."
Union Buildings Area.
Aylesbury Place, Clerkenwell, and Union Buildings, Holborn,
Improvement Scheme, 1899.
In March, 1896, I reported to the Board the greater part of the Union
Buildings Area, under Sec. 39, Sub-sec. (1) (6) of the "Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890," which is as follows:—
"Where it appears to the local authority that the closeness, narrowness,
and bad arrangement or bad condition of any buildings, or the want of light,
air, ventilation, or proper conveniences, or any other sanitary defect in any