[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of] page 67

St Pancras 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: The result of classifying these underground dwelling-rooms according to structural conditions, worked out as follows:—

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The result of classifying these underground dwelling-rooms according to structural conditions, worked out as follows:—

First Series (Requirements of 1855).			N umber.
D i v. Class I.—Rooms less than seven feet high from floor to ceiling			140
A. „ II.—Rooms without a lire-place and proper chimney or flue		..	0
Class III.—Rooms with the ceiling less than one foot above ground level		..	551
(a) The ceiling below ground level more than nine inches		15
B. (b) The ceiling below ground level, but less than nine inches		77
Ground level to one foot above 435	(c) The ceiling level with ground*	586
	(d) The ceiling above ground level, but less than half a foot	18
	(e) The ceiling above ground level more than half but less than one foot	55
Class IV.—Without an area three feet wide at least	Front	8
Class IV.—Without an area three feet wide at least	Back	2
,, V.—With an area three feet wide or more, but—
C. Incomplete Area 430	(a) Not extending along the entire frontage of the room	37
	(b) Not extending to six inches below the level of the floor of the room	295
	(c) Not open to the sky (excepting access)	146
D. Class VI.—Without a window nine square feet in superficies made to open		0
Class VII.—Ineffectually drained and secured against the rise of effluvia from any sewer or drain		..
„ VIII.—Not provided with the use of a water closet and ashbin		0
* Note.—With regard to the angle of light and air to rooms with the ceiling less than one foot above ground level, in which all the other requirements are fulfilled, temporary respite might be allowed where the height of the area is less than double the width, and a longer respite might be extended to such rooms where the height of the area is less than the width, the former giving an angle of 60½ degrees, and the latter an angle of 45 degrees of light and air.
Second Series (Requirements of 1891). As set out in Section 96 of the Act. (See under the head of Legal Requisites above.)
Number of rooms falling into the Second Series		..	525
In 26 cases the particulars furnished were insufficient to admit of classification			26
Total			1242