London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1904
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
This page requires JavaScript
133
of sanitary works have been carried out, and the areas have
necessitated constant supervision and extra inspection during the
last four years.
(v) Closure and Demolition of Dwelling Houses.—
Subsequently to the carrying out of the requirements of the law
under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, the
London County Council is occupied in executing the Scheme. The
three steps are (a) acquisition of property, (b) closure of houses,
(c) demolition of houses, and the following Table sets out the
historv of these nroceedinars:—
| Areas. | No. of Condemned Houses occupied at end of 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses acquired. | Houses closed. | Houses demolished. | Houses acquired. | Houses closed. | Houses demolished. | Houses acquired. | Houses closed. | Houses demolished. | Houses acquired. | Houses closed. | Houses demolished. | ||
| Aylesbury Place | 61 | 16 | 16 | 11 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 16 | 11 | |||||||||||
| 16 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 62 | |||||||||||||
It is expected that the work of demolilion of the Garden Row
Area will commence in April or May, 1905.
(vi) Rebuilding.—Roby Street is the only area upon which
complete demolition has been carried out. At the end of 1902 seven
houses were still occupied. By May, 1903, five of them had
been closed, and subsequently the remaining two were closed and
the area entirely cleared. The County Council, for some time,
Demolition refers only to houses demolished under the Act by the
County Council. It does not include " ruins."