Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops
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50.4 per cent. were found to have sanitary defects. These houses were situated in the streets shown in the following table:—
Street or Buildings. | No. of houses or occupancies inspected. | No. of houses in which defects were found. | Percentage of houses with defects to houses inspected. | No. of families living in | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
One room. | Two rooms. | Three rooms. | Four rooms & over. | ||||
Bartholomew's Buildings | 93 | 35 | 37.6 | 20 | 45 | 22 | 6 |
Busaco Street | 36 | 19 | 52.7 | 27 | 25 | l6 | 17 |
Collier Street | 16 | 7 | 43.7 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 |
Corporation Row | 20 | 6 | 30.0 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 4 |
Central Street | 13 | 7 | 54.0 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Church Row | 8 | 7 | 87.5 | 2 | 13 | - | 5 |
Chapel Place | 13 | 7 | 53.8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
Dingley Road | 14 | 14 | 100.0 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 6 |
Dufferin Street | 25 | 4 | l6.0 | 6 | 10 | 9 | — |
Dundee Buildings | 22 | 6 | 27.2 | — | 22 | - | — |
Eagle Dwellings | 31 | 12 | 38.7 | — | 15 | 12 | 4 |
Elizabeth Place | 9 | 6 | 66.6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | — |
Galway Street | 15 | 13 | 86.6 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 1 |
Godson Street | 13 | 8 | 61.5 | 15 | 24 | 9 | 4 |
Helmet Row | 15 | 10 | 66.6 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
Ironmonger Row | 8 | 8 | 100.0 | 13 | 7 | 7 | — |
James Gardens | 15 | 15 | 100.0 | 54 | 21 | - | — |
Lever Street | 23 | 16 | 69.5 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 17 |
Lever Street Buildings | 12 | 1 | 8.5 | 5 | — | 5 | 1 |
Langton Avenue | 10 | 10 | 100.0 | - | 9 | 9 | 1 |
Little Sutton Street Buildings | 50 | 26 | 52.0 | 8 | 39 | 1 | - |
Macclesfield Place | 17 | 12 | 70.6 | - | 17 | - | - |
Macclesfield Street | 14 | 10 | 71.4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 8 |
Moreland Street | 21 | 19 | 90.5 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 13 |
Muriel Street | 9 | 5 | 55.5 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
Norman's Buildings | 6 | 6 | 100.0 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
New Buildings | 10 | 6 | 60.0 | 2 | 9 | — | — |
Pump Court | 9 | 4 | 44.4 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Peerless Buildings | 72 | 15 | 20.8 | — | — | 60 | 12 |
Peabody Buildings | 62 | 13 | 20.9 | 8 | 22 | 22 | — |
Radnor Street | 8 | 8 | 100.0 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 1 |
Rodney Place | 15 | 15 | 100.0 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 2 |
Risinghill Street | 5 | 5 | 100.0 | 30 | 10 | — | — |
St. James's Street | 11 | 2 | 18.1 | 46 | 11 | 4 | — |
Smithfield Buildings | 20 | 7 | 35 .0 | - | 20 | - | — |
Sidney Place | 15 | 15 | 100.0 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 2 |
Winchester Street | 10 | 7 | 70.0 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Winchester Cottages | 6 | 1 | 16.6 | 6 | 2 | — | 4 |
Wilmington Place | 8 | 5 | 62.5 | 15 | 7 | — | — |
Weston Street | 12 | 5 | 41.6 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 5 |
Other Streets in which less than five houses per Street were Inspected | 15 | 12 | 75.0 | 5 | 12 | 3 | — |
Totals | 806 | 406 | 50.3 | 414 | 535 | 270 | 148 |