Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1919
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No. 2. Cranbrook Street Area.—13 acres, 523 houses,
population 3,138. Congested in parts and insanitary.
Bad arrangement of streets. Many houses
worn out and insanitary.
No. 3. Collingwood Street Area.—6 acres, 286
houses, population 1,716. Congested. Houses
worn out.
No. 4. Pott Street Area.—6 acres, 239 hovises, population
1,434. Congested. Houses worn out and
narrow and badly arranged streets.
No. 5. Pedley Street Area.—4 acres, 174 houses,
population 1,044. Congested. Houses worn out
and narrow and badly arranged streets.
No. 6. Margarets Place Area.—2 acres, 148 houses,
population 888. Congested and worn out.
No. 7. Teale Street Area.—4 acres, 137 houses,
population 822. Houses small and worn out.
No. 8. Punderson Gardens Area.—3 acres, 132
houses, population 792. Houses small, damp and
worn out.
No. 9. Turin Street Area.—4 acres, 141 houses,
population 846. Congested and worn out.
No. 10. Diss Street Area.—2 acres, 70 houses, population
420., Part of area already cleared. Remaining
houses insanitary.
No. 11. Kirkwall Place Area.—½ acre, 24 houses,
population 144. Houses more or less obstructive
and insanitary.