Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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12
1906]
Classes—
I. II. III. IV.
Upper Holloway 32 2 8 15
Lower Holloway 5 4 4 19
Barnsbury 20 7 10 17
Highbury 25 5 2 2
Islington South-East 29 14 9 16
The borough 111 32 33 69
"In the Borough as a whole 111 areas come under Class I., 32 under .
Class II., 33 under Class III., and 69 under Class IV. It is interesting to
note that while the least crowded areas are the most numerous, the most
crowded follow next in order.
The Enumeration Areas referred to in the separate classifications are as
follows:—
Upper Holloway.
Class I—Areas 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29,
32, 33, 34, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 47, 48, 49, 51, 56, 57, 59, 60.
Total 32.
Class II.—Areas 4, 31. Total 2.
Class III.—Areas 3, 6, 7, 27, 30, 50, 64, 65. Total 8.
Class IV—Areas 1, 2, 8, 17, 35, 36, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 62, 63 and 66.
Total 15.
"The greatest overcrowding (Class IV.) occurs in that part of the district
which is bounded by Seven Sisters Road on the south, Moray Road and
Birnam Road on the north, and Stroud Green Road on the east. In this area
are contained enumeration districts 53, 54, 55, 61, 62, 63, 64.
Lower Holloway.
Class I.—Areas 20, 22, 29, 32, 35. Total 5.
Class II.—Areas 13, 28, 34, 36. Total 4.
Class III.—Areas 19, 21, 23, 30. Total 4.
Class IV.—Areas 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27,
31, 33. Total 19.