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HOUSING IN FINSBURY.
In a return made to the Ministry of Health in 1919, many
streets and areas were mentioned as districts which in normal
times would receive attention from a housing standpoint, and
made the subject of representation, but in respect of which action
was then being postponed in view of the difficulty of re-housing
the tenants who would be consequently displaced.
These streets and areas were the following:—
Amias Place, Bakers' Row, Baltic Street, Bastwick Street,
Bath Court, Berkley Court, Berkley Street, Busaco Street, Caroline
Place, Chapel Place, Chapel Row, Charlotte Place, Church
Row, Claremont Mews, Coleman's Buildings, Compton Passage,
Crawford Passage, Dingley Road, Douglas Place, East Place,
Easton Place, Easton Street, Elizabeth Place, Emmen's Buildings,
Europa Place, Eaulkner's Alley, Field Place, Fletcher's Row,
Francis Court, Frye's Buildings, Gee Street, Great Bath Street,
Hatfield Street, Holford Mews, Hallett's Place, James' Gardens,
Jay's Buildings, Kemp Place, Eambs' Buildings, Leicester Place,
Lewin's Court, Ludlow Street, Macclesfield Place, Margaret
Street, Mason's Place, Medcalf Place, Memel Street, Merlin's
Place, Mount Zion, Mulberry Place, Murton Street, Parr's Place,
Prospect Row, Pump Court, Richmond Street, Rodney Place,
Rosoman Mews, St. Helena Street, Seabrook Place, Shrewsbury
Court, Sidcup Place, Sidney Grove, Sidney Place, Sidney Street,
Stewart's Place, Thornhill Cottages, Union Place (Clerkenwell
Close), Union Place (Glasshouse Yard), Wardens Place, Warner
Street, West Place, Whitehorse Alley, Winchester Cottages,
Wither's Place, Young's Buildings.
This list is not exhaustive. It contains the places which
five years ago were considered to be amongst the worst. Since
then, however, the Finsburv housing problem has become more
acute than ever.
There are two considerations involved. On the one hand
there are in the borough a large number of poor people, some
living almost from hand to mouth, who apparently cannot possibly
pay an economic rent for houses, or tenements in houses erected
at the present day.