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10
1912
which seemed a few years since to be about to affect Islington, has been
dammed, and that the borough is now fast recovering from its unexpected check
The signs of a returned prosperity are to be seen everywhere; and no where
more than in Upper Street, where empty shops are becoming fewer and fewer
Last year the Medical Officer of Health wrote that "a street which was for
long years Islington's glory and its most busy thoroughfare, both during the
day and night, had latterly exhibited a beggarly array of empty shops. That
they will not long remain so is certain, for there are not wanting signs that
they will by-and-bye be reoccupied, although possibly not by businesses of
the same high class as formally, but probably by those which will meet the
wants of the different class of people who are now occupying houses in
Highbury, Canonbury and Barnsbury, which aforetime were owned or rented
by carriage people and similarly wealthy folks and good middle-class persons.''
This prophecy is becoming so true, that he expects that before another year
has elapsed that Upper Street will present as busy and animated an
appearance as it ever did in olden days, albeit by a less wealthy class of
people.
The Tables immediately succeeding give full information respecting the
sex, age and distribution of the population in the several sub-registration
districts and wards, together with information respecting their areas and
densities, as well as details of importance which have been abstracted from
the census returns recently issued.