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St Giles (Camden) 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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III.—Buildings belonging to the Central London Dwellings
Improvement Company.
Secretary, Miss Cons, Surrey Lodge, Kennington Road, S.
And the Office, 9, Granby Place, Drury Lane, W.C.
THE THURSTON AND HOLLAND MODEL DWELLINGS,
NEWTON STREET.
Resident Superintendent, Mr. Christie.
I inspected and certified under the 26th Section of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act as to the sanitary condition, etc., of these buildings, consisting of 2 Blocks, viz., Holland Buildings, Nos. 1 to 10 and 11 to 19, and 4 Shops, Thurston Buildings, Nos. 1 to 38, which were opened in 1885.
| Block. | No. of tenements. | Rooms. | Total No. of rooms. | No. of w.c.'s. | No. of flushing boxes. | No. of a raw-off taps.. | No. of dust shoots. | No. of dust receptacles. | Sheds for baskets & barrows. | Weekly Rental of Lettiugs. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of rooms, | .No. of 2 rooms. | No. ot 3 rooms, | |||||||||||
| Max. | Min. | ||||||||||||
| 19 and 4 shops | - | 19 | - | 38 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 4 | - | 6/9 | 3/3 | |
| - | 8 | - | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| - | 48 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 4 | |||||||
| 61 | 32 | - | 94 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 28 | 23 | 4 | ||||
The number of inhabitants was as follows:—
Holland Buildings — 58 adults, 24 children above and 15
under 5 years of age.
Thurston Buildings—60 adults, 35 children above and 27
under 5 years.
There were 10 births (5 in Holland and 5 in Thurston),
corresponding to a birth-rate of 457 per 1,000.
8 deaths were recorded, 2 of which occurred in public
hospitals, equal to a death-rate of 36'5 per 1,000.
5 of the deaths were children under 2 were from
zymotic diseases, whooping-cough and diarrhoea.