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Street or Buildings
No. of
houses or
occupancies
inspected.
No. of
houses in
which defects
were found.
Percentage of
liouses with defects
to liouses
inspected.
No. of families living in
One
room
Two
moms
Three
rooms
Four
rooms
& over.
Charlotte Place 10 8 80.0 — 8 1 1
East Place 6 4 66.6 — — — 6
Chapel Place 6 4 66.6 — — — 6
White Conduit Street 8 4 50.0 9 14 1 3
Forty-six other streets in 98 65 — 98 103 36 21
which less than five
houses per street were
inspected
3. Overcrowding.—In the third place, regular work is
being done in the reduction, as far as known and as far as
practicable, of any nuisances arising by reason of overcrowding.
The prevalence of overcrowding in Finsbury was considered in
some detail in the Housing Report issued in 1901 by the Medical
Officer (see pp. 57-67), and it will therefore be unnecessary to enter
into the facts there set forth.
During the year a large number of complaints of alleged " overcrowding
" have been made to the Department, and each of these
has received careful investigation. Most of them proved to be
unfounded or grossly exaggerated. In 59 cases, however, overcrowding
has been reduced. This figure does not include 59 other
cases of overcrowding abated in registered houses. Total 118.
We have not (as in 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904) carried out any
systematic inspection by day and night in certain streets and
areas known to be overcrowded, as we have reason to believe that
the vigorous action taken in previous years has practically removed
the nuisances of extensive overcrowding in certain streets. (See
Report, 1904, pp. 153-157.)
It should, however, be added that on the night of February 17th
a " night inspection " was made by the Inspectors in co-operation
with the Public Health Department of the London County Council,