Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The Insanitary Areas in Finsbury under the London County Council. (Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. Part I.)
Area. | Date of Represen-tation. | Date of Inquiry. | No. of Houses at time of Scheme. | No. of Population at time of Scheme. | No. of Dwelling Houses Closed in each year. | Present position. | ||||||||||
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1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | Total No. Closed. | No. of Houses still Standing. | No. of Dwelling houses Closed orEmpty, but not demolished. | No. of Houses Demolished. | Approximate population now resident. | Approximate population displaced from beginning of Scheme to the present time. | |||||
Aylesbury Place | Dec. 1897 | Mar., 1900 | † 73 | 511 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 22 | 8 | 60° | 62 | 49 | 11 | 65 | 446 |
Garden Row | July, 1899 | ,, | 69 | 407 | — | 1 | 17 | 23 | 7 | 21 | 69 | — | — | 69 | — | 407 |
Roby Street | ,, | ,, | 50 | 218 | — | — | 30 | 7 | — | — | 37 | — | — | 50 | — | 218 |
Baltic Street | ,, | ,, | 55 | 351 | — | — | 13 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 45 | 37 | 34 | 19 | 7 | 344 |
Honduras Street | ,, | ,, | 17 | 217 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 3 | — | 104 | 113 |
Totals | ... | ... | 264 | 1704 | 1 | 4 | 62 | 63 | 41 | 35 | 214 | 116 | 86 | 149 | 176 | 1528 |
° Eight houses in this area were closed before 1900.
† The figures in this column include workshops and other houses which are not dwelling-houses.