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Finsbury 1913

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1913

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A. Schneider, 42, Southampton Street.
E. Stilz, 72, White Lion Street.
J. L. Stocker, 29, Central Street.
W. Stone, 11, Bowling- Green Lane.
O. S. Stumpf, 30, Penton Street.
W.J. Todd, 92, King's Cross Road.
H. Ullmar, 88, Farringdon Road.
M. Volmar, 42, Bath Street.
W. & H. Yooght, 3, Moreland Street.
C. Wagner, 148, Whitecross Street.
G. Werner, 124, Central Street.
W. Werner, 2, Chapel Street.
C. Wolf, 236, Goswell Road.
All the bakehouses are periodically inspected; in 1913 the
number of visits paid was 107. Notices for cleansing and
dilapidations were issued in 25 instances. These were all complied
with.
HOUSING.
In 1913, one house was represented by the Medical Officer of
Health as being unfit for human habitation. The Council made
a closing order on December 19th, 1913. The roof of the house
was very much broken and leaking. The pantiles of the roof had
parted, leaving intervals through which communication was
established from the front top room with the outside air. In this
room the laths were exposed and bereft of plaster over two large
areas, and were wet and much bowed inwards so as to be
dangerous to the occupants. The premises were otherwise
internally dilapidated, broken, dirty, and in places damp. During
wet weather the occupant of the ground floor caught in a
galvanized iron receptacle the rain that percolated from the top
floor.
Registered Houses let in Lodgings.—No fresh houses
were placed on the register in 1913. The register was, however,
very carefully revised, and found to contain 1,188 houses. From