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reside in the district chiefly because their work is there. As
means of transit further improve, and business premises multiply,
and the district becomes less suited for residence, greater numbers
of people will migrate, and the population will still further be
depleted.
With the exception of a number of model dwellings, the houses
are of the older fashioned type, provided, in the majority of
instances, with basements. Most of the houses are occupied by
more than one family, the floors being either let separately by
the owner or sub-let by the person renting the whole house.
The number of houses occupied wholly by one family, even in
the formerly fashionable squares, is diminishing, some being now
used as offices and business premises, others being let in tenements.
BIRTHS.—During the year, 2857 births were registered of
Finsbury residents, equivalent to a birth-rate of 29-9 per 1,000
living. The corresponding rates for the rest of the country were
as follows :—
England and Wales 25.6
London 24.2
Finsbury 29.9
76 Great Towns 25.7
143 Small Towns 24.8
Rural Districts 25.6
Eighty-one of the Finsbury births took place in the City Road
Workhouse; 51 were notified from other Boroughs. At the City
of London Lying-in Hospital 835 births took place, of which 133
belonged to Finsbury, and the rest to other London Boroughs.
The following table shews the birth rates in Finsbury and each
of the sub-registration districts since the Borough was formed :—