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These changes have been brought about on the southern side of
the Parish entirely by the demolition of dwelling houses and the
erection on their sites of warehouses, factories, &c., while on
the north side the same observation applies to a less extent,
the extra accommodation provided by the erection of Guinness's
Trust Buildings has fully compensated for the loss of dwelling
houses in that district.
During the past five years, in which some record has been kept,
I find that 96 dwelling houses have been pulled down in the City
Road District, and it is estimated that the number of persons
thereby displaced amounted to 845. In the Whitecross Street
District 71 houses have been demolished in the same period,
whereby 598 persons were displaced, and in the Finsbury
District 81 houses were pulled down and 809 persons were in the
same way disturbed. Taking the two latter districts, formed
from the south side of Old Street, together, the figures would be
152 houses destroyed and 1,407 persons displaced, and for the
whole Parish 248 houses converted into factories, &c., whereby
2,252 persons had to find homes elsewhere.
As I have already intimated the demand for accommodation
has been to some extent met by the erection of Guinness's
Trust Buildings in Lever Street; these dwellings consist of 14
blocks, eight of which were opened January, 1893, and six in J June,
1894, the whole providing accommodation for 1558 persons,
leaving 694 persons unprovided for, being only 219 less than the
total decrease in the population during the 5 years.