Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington
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Classes—
IV.
III.
II.
I.
Upper Holloway
Lower Holloway
Barnsbury
Highbury
Islington South-East
The Borough
32
5
20
25
29
111
2
4
7
5
14
32
8
4
10
2
9
83
15
19
17
2
16
69
In the Borough as a whole 111 areas come under Class I., 32 under
Class II., 33 under Class III., and 69 under Class IV. It is interesting to note
that while the least crowded areas are the most numerous, the most crowded
follow next in order.
The Enumeration Areas referred to in the separate classifications are as
follows:—
Upper Holloway.
Class I.—Areas 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29,
32, 33, 34. 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 56, 57, 59, 60.
Total 32.
Class II.—Areas 4, 31. Total 2.
Class III.—Areas 3, 6, 7, 27, 30, 50, 64, 65. Total 8.
Class IV.—Areas 1, 2, 8, 17, 35, 36, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 62, 63
and 66. Total 15.
The greatest overcrowding (Class IV.) occurs in that part of the district
which is bounded by Seven Sisters lioad on the south, Moray Road and
Birnam Road on the north, and Stroud Green Road on the east. In this area
are contained enumeration districts numbered 53, 54, 55, 61, 62, 63, 64.