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Many details respecting various death-rates in the area during 1905 and for
the five years 1896-1900 inclusive, and for the five years 1901-1905 inclusive,
were given in ray Annual Report for 1905. I may here briefly mention that
the average death-rate from all causes in the area for the 10 years 1896-1905
inclusive was 29.2 per 1,000; and for the principal zymotic diseases 4.95 per 1,000
in comparison with 1.98 for the Holborn Borough.
Although this area was generally known as the Italian Colony, at a census
which we took in 1895 the population there was only 947, and in February, 1906,
was 966. I handed in the statistics of the Census of 1901, which shows there
was then 10,889 Italians scattered throughout the Metropolis and residing in
greater or lesser numbers in each of the Metropolitan Boroughs.
In the course of the Inquiry certain proposals for demolition, alterations and
repairs were made by the owners of the greater part of the area, and, either at
the Inquiry or as a result of correspondence, arrangements were made with the
owners of the remaining parts of the area to carry out such alterations, repairs
and renovations to the houses in their possession, as under all the circumstances
of the case were considered necessary by the Medical Officers of Health of the
London County Council and of this Borough. In addition, undertakings were
given by the representatives of the owners to discontinue the use of the underground
rooms on the area for living purposes.
The property demolished is as follows:—Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Eyre Terrace, 1 to
12, Eyre Court, 1 to 15, Fleet Row, 4, 5 and 6, Summers Court, and 1 and 2,
Eyre Place.
Practically the whole of the centres of the three blocks comprised in the area
have thus been cleared and left open, affording light, ventilation and air space.
The underground rooms have been discontinued for living purposes, and the