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City of London 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: EAST DISTRICT.

EAST DISTRICT.

Name and situation of Artizans' Block Dwellings.No. of Tenements.
One Room.Two Rooms.Three Rooms.Four Rooms.Five, or more Rooms.No. of Inhabitants.
Harrow Alley and Stoney Lane—
North Block...488......231
South „52213......170
Prince's „550.........177
Queen's ,,5405......179
King's ,,81616......184
Barker's Buildings, Catherine Wheel Alley, Bishopsgate Street Without12103......60
Total Two " Blocks "3518645......1,001

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These eleven Blocks, containing 453 tenements, are inhabited by 1,450
persons = 3'2 persons to each tenement.
A list of registered tenement houses is given in Appendix C (p. 174).
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES.
24-25, New Street, Bishopsgate.
4, Vine Street, Minories.
These premises formerly used as common lodging-houses and closed in
February, 1906, have since been demolished, and police dwellings erected on
their sites.
116, Middlesex Street.
The " Salvation Army Working Men's Hotel and Shelter," No. 116, Middlesex
Street, is the only common lodging-house in the City. It provides
sleeping accommodation for 453 persons, and was opened on the 7th
February, 1906.
On the 27th February, 1906, when reporting the opening of this place to
the Sanitary Committee, I expressed the opinion that the establishment of
a common lodging-house of such large dimensions within the City would
probably result in an increase in the number of persons chargeable upon the
ratepayers as destitute sick inmates removable to the City Infirmary.