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Finsbury 1911

Report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1911

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Briefly, they consist in defining those streets in the Borough in
which infant deaths chiefly take place, in visiting every household
in such streets in which a birth occurs on the eleventh day after the
birth, or as soon as convenient, and giving suitable advice to the
mother.
The following is the list of the streets in which 10 or more infant
deaths have occurred in 7 recent years :—
DISTRICT No. 1.
Infant Infant
Deaths. , Deaths.
Affleck Street 19 Myddelton Square 19
Amwell Street 10 Noble Street 22
Albert Street 26 Northampton Buildings 65
Bakers Row 15 Northampton Road 26
Berkley Street 17 Penton Place 11
Busaco Street 14 Penton Street 20
Buxton Street 13 Pentonville Road 36
Chapel Street 12 Pine Street 14
Clerkenwell Close 16 Red Lion Street 16
Coldbath Buildings 11 Risinghill Street 61
Coldbath Square 18 Rodney Street 25
Collier Street 19 Rosebery Avenue 11
Corporation Buildings 14 Rosoman Street 25
Gumming Street 28 St. Helena Street 30
Donegal Street 18 St. James Street 11
Easton Street 31 St. John Street 35
Farringdon Road 30 Sadler Street 10
Gloucester Street 12 Southampton Street 46
Godson Street 12 Victoria Dwellings,
Goswell Terrace 10 (Clerkenwell Road) 23
Gt. Bath Street 12 Vineyard Walk 15
Gt. Percy Street 14 Warren Street 35
Hermes Street 21 Whiskin Street 13
James Gardens 13 White Lion Street 40
Kings Cross Road 23 Wilmington Place 10
Little Sutton Street 27 Wilmington Square 17
Margaret Place 32 Wynford Road 19
Margaret Street 32