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Islington 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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1912]
Area.— Islington contains 3,092 acres, of which 292 are parks, open
spaces, or water, or railways, or markets, so that only 2,800 acres are available
for houses and roads and streets. Water, such as the Regent's Canal, and the
New River, takes up 17.2 acres, railways 196.9 acres, markets 14.9 acres, and
parks and open spaces 62.8 acres, so that altogether 291.8 acres are unavailable
for housing the people. This is not a great area, although distributed as it is
over the borough it affords very satisfactory lungs for it.

Table IV. shows how this space is distributed:—

TableIV.

Sub-Districts.1Gross Area (Acres). 2Water. 3Railways. 4Markets. 5Parks and Open Spaces. 6Total Unavailable Space. 7Net Area. 8
Tufnell4177.420.8...6.234.4382.6
Upper Holloway290...7.3......7.3282.7
Tollington320...21.9......21.9298.1
Lower Holloway413...33.014.911.058.9354.1
Highbury798...76.1...32.4108.5689.5
Barnsbury3095.122.0...4.731.8277.2
South-East Islington5454.715.8...8.529.0516.0
The Borough3,09217.2196.914.962.8291.82,800.2