London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Finsbury 1900

Some notes on the housing question in Finsbury...

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"populated districts which provide such employment, and away
"from the suburbs where such work would be out of reach. There
"is, moreover, to be considered the difficulty many of the poor have
"in moving from a neighbourhood on account of the credit they
"have built up with the little shopkeepers of the district."
This quotation illustrates various points affecting Finsbury,
although of course twelve or fifteen years have made a marked
difference in some of the characteristics.