London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Finsbury 1907

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 Buildings933537.62045226
Busaco Street361952.72725l617
Collier Street16743.711177
Corporation Row20630.0112144
Central Street13754.061046
Church Row8787.5213-5
Chapel Place13753.87525
Dingley Road1414100.0141056
Dufferin Street254l6.06109
Dundee Buildings22627.222-
Eagle Dwellings311238.715124
Elizabeth Place9666.6772
Galway Street151386.61216101
Godson Street13861.5152494
Helmet Row151066.618886
Ironmonger Row88100.01377
James Gardens1515100.05421-
Lever Street231669.51510417
Lever Street Buildings1218.5551
Langton Avenue1010100.0-991
Little Sutton Street Buildings502652.08391-
Macclesfield Place171270.6-17--
Macclesfield Street141071.45938
Moreland Street211990.51112513
Muriel Street9555.53833
Norman's Buildings66100.04721
New Buildings10660.029
Pump Court9444.414411
Peerless Buildings721520.86012
Peabody Buildings621320.982222
Radnor Street88100.061451
Rodney Place1515100.071662
Risinghill Street55100.03010
St. James's Street11218.146114
Smithfield Buildings20735 .0-20-
Sidney Place1515100.071232
Winchester Street10770.08822
Winchester Cottages6116.6624
Wilmington Place8562.5157
Weston Street12541.651645
Other Streets in which less than five houses per Street were Inspected151275.05123
Totals80640650.3414535270148