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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
Finsbury 1902
Report on the public health of 1902
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Baltic Street Area.—Baltic Street, 3 [13]; Middle Row, 4 [4];
Baltic Place, 0 [4]; Baltic Court, 1 [7]; New Court, 5 [2]; Thomas
Place, 0 [5]; Hatfield Street, 0 [4]. Total closures—13.
Honduras Street Area.—Honduras Street, 0 [8] ; Baltic Street,
0 [3] ; Golden Lane, 0 [5]. Several tenements are empty, but no
houses wholly closed. Total closures—0.
The decline in houses step by step is seen in the following table:—
| Dwelling Houses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | ||
| Aylesbury Place | 70 | 61 | 58 | 56 | |
| Garden Row | 69 | 69 | 69 | 51 | |
| Roby Street | 37 | 37 | 37 | 7 | |
| Baltic Street | 52 | 52 | 52 | 39 | |
| Honduras Street | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | |
| 235 | 232 | 169 | |||
In addition to closed houses, there are upon the areas from time
to time several houses empty temporarily. Some of the closed
houses, especially in the Aylesbury Place Area, are in ruins.
" Closure " should be understood to mean that the house is boarded
up or locked by the County Council.
There have been no demolitions on any of the areas up to the
present, but " closures" have been taking place on each of the areas.
A number of houses have therefore been standing empty, in some
cases for many months.
(ii) Population on the Areas.—The total population on the five
areas in 1899 was 1704. At the end of 1902 it was 1352. The
approximate changes are set out in the following table. The figures
for 1899 and 1902 are correct, and the result of actual enumeration
of persons on the areas at those dates, but the figures for 1900 and
1901 are estimated :—