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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Highbury.
Class I.—Areas 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 44. Total 25.
Class II.—Areas 14, 23, 24, 37, 43. Total 5.
Class III.—Areas 8 and 9. Total 2.
Class IV.—Areas 32 and 34. Total 2.
The greatest overcrowding (Class IY.) is confined to two districts only,
Nos. 32 and 34, the centres of which are Brand Street in one area, and
Queensland Road in the other.
Islington South-East. .
Class I.—Areas 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30, 31,
36, 37, 38, 45, 48, 50, 51, 54, 55, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67
Total 29.
Class II.—Areas 4, 12, 13, 25, 27, 29, 32, 42, 52, 53, 58, 65, 66,
69. Total 14.
Class III.—Areas 3, 5, 28, 34, 39, 40, 46, 59, 60. Total 9.
Class IY.—Areas 2, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 33, 35, 41, 43, 44, 47,
56, 68, 70. Total 16.
The greatest overcrowding (Class IV.) occurs in that part of the district
which is bounded on the north by Essex Road, on the south by Linton Street,
on the east by New North Road, and on the west by Packington Street.
In this area are contained enumeration districts Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
35, and 41.
In pursuing my investigations further, I found that—
In Upper Ilollotvay.—723 one-room tenements are over-crowded. That is to
say, each tenement contains on an average more
than 2 persons.
That 986 two-room tenements are over-crowded. That
is to say, that each tenement contains on an
average more than 4 persons.