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HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT.
Under Part I. of the Act.
WARNER STREET AREA (ITALIAN COLONY).
Details of this area which, was represented by me in July, 1901, were given in my
Annual Report for that year.
I may briefly state that the area is situate between Warner Street on the north,
the backs of the houses fronting Clerkenwell Road on the south, Back Hill on the
east, and the backs of the houses in Eyre Street Hill, Eyre Court and Red Lion Yard
on the west.
It is about two acres (1*86 acres) in extent and comprises about 125 houses and
premises; thirty-eight of the houses are in five small courts. The population of the
area was about 1,170, almost all of whom are Italians of the labouring classes.
The density of the population was therefore 629 per acre, in comparison with
147 for the Holborn Borough, and 61 for the whole of London.
In 1901, soon after the representation was made, Nos. 26 to 31 inclusive, Eyre
Street Hill, were demolished and rebuilt as factories, and in January, 1904, all the
houses in Summers Court were voluntarily closed. During 1905, Nos. 7 and 8,
Summers Street were voluntarily closed, when legal proceedings for their closure
under Part II. of the Act were being initiated, and notwithstanding repeated promises
of development of the area, the houses were repaired and reoccupied by October,
1905. Nos. 1 and 2, Eyre Terrace, were closed by Magistrate's order under Part II.
of the Act.