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how the same were used (whether as sleeping rooms only or as
sleeping and dwelling rooms combined), the number of occupants
to each letting and whether the premises were registered under
the bye-laws relating to houses let in lodgings.
To the Public Health Committee.
Gextlemen,—In accordance with the Resolution of the
Public Health Committee of April 24th, 1900, I beg to submit
the following report dealing with the six small areas submitted
for the consideration of the London County Council.
They are situated: three on the south side of Old Street, and are
known as Beckford Square, Tilney Court and Young's Buildings
(in the latter area is included two houses in Old Street and eleven
in Whiteeross Street); and three on the north side of Old Street,
known as Central Street (comprising Nos. 2 to 36 in that thoroughfare,
two houses in Old Street, being Xos. 81 and 83, Whitby
Court at the rear of Central Street, and two houses in Mitchell
Street, being Nos. 2 and 4). Bastwick Street Area comprising
Xos. 13 to 38 in that Street, and Ludlow Street, the houses of
which back on to Nos. 2 to 30 in (lee Street, and by which they
are rendered insanitary by reason of their closeness thereto.
One hundred and thirty-five deaths occurred in the six areas
during the past five years, of which 86 occurred in the northern
and 49 in the southern area. The total deaths equalled 31.5 per
1000 per annum of the population, and dividing these figures
between the two districts the death rate was 30.6 per 1,000 in the
north and 32.8 in the south.
The deaths of children five years of age and under numbered
fifty-nine, being at the rate of 43.7 per cent., and from phthisis
the death rate was 30.3 percent. Average death rate from same
cause was 10.8 per cent.