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The Division of the Districts and the various Streets and Roads in
those Localities.
Your district is divided into three Wards—North, Central, and South
Wards.
North Ward is formed of the northern portion of the district. Oakleigh Park.
Great North Road, Whetstone, Finchley Park, Myddleton Park, Friern Lane.
Doncastsr Terrace, Scoreby Road, Bawtry Road, Oakleigh Road, Ada Cottages,
and Lilly Villas. The houses are of a mixed class, some large, some cottages,
and small house property There are 351 houses, and a population of 2.134
persons.
Central Ward includes all houses situated in that portion of the district
between the west side of the Railway Bridge, Friern Barnet Road, and Orange
Tree Publichouse, Friern Lane, Torrington Park, and Friern Park. It contains
about 494 houses, and has an estimated population of 2,968 persons. The
houses are chiefly terrace-houses, many of which are occupied by more than
one family; there are also some villas.
South Ward is formed of all houses on the eastern side of the Railway
Bridge, including Southgate Place, Southgate Villas, Avenue. Stanley Terrace,
and Oakleigh Road, as far as the Pumping Station, Western Villas. Woodland
Road, Colney Hatch Lane, and that part of the district south of the Lunatic
Asylum. There are in the South Ward about 432 houses, having an estimated
population of 2,596 persons. The houses in the South Ward are some villa
property, with a large proportion of small house property. In that portion of
the South Ward known as The Avenue, the houses are chiefly occupied by the
working classes, and let out to members of more than one family. The area
covered with houses of this portion of the district is a little more than eleven
acres. The population is about 1,428 persons, so that there are about 139
persons to an acre. Such an aggregation of numbers must necessarily imply
an increased risk of infection from infectious diseases; a high rate of mortality
among children under one year of age. If we consider the infectious illness, we
find in this area 24 cases have occurred during the year; this is nearly four
times as much when compared with the same area in other parts of the district.
Further, 9 deaths of infants under 5 years, out of a total (number of deaths
under 5 years) of 31. The causes of deaths were convulsions, wasting diseases,
and prematurity, one death of an adult from typhoid fever, and an adult from
phthisis.
This condition of increased illness points to certain sanitary defects.
During the year some progress has been made with the better sanitary
condition of houses.
I would respectfully suggest the following as a means to improve the
sanitary condition of this particular district: —
(1) That there should be prepared a map showing the position of sewers,
surface drains, and connections of house-drains with sewers, and position of
interceptors.
(2) That the cleansing of all mews, passages should be undertaken by your
Authority, and when the bye-laws relating to paving yards and spaces about
buildings are brought into existence by your Council, they should be enforced.
(3) The bye-laws relating to houses let in lodgings should be put in force.
(4) That frequent inspection of houses should be made.
(5) The ventilation of the sewers might be assisted by some few ventilating
columns.