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[1907
REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
FOR YEAR 1907.
SUB DISTRICTS, WARDS, AREA, POPULATION
AND DENSITY.
Sub-Registration Districts.—Islington is divided into seven
sub-districts by the Registrar General for the convenience of those of its
inhabitants who from time to time may have occasion to register a birth or a
death. In the earliest days of registration, that is to say in 1838, it was split
into two districts, East and West Islington, which were separated from each
other by a line running through the centre of Upper Street to Highbury, and
thence through the Highgate Road, which is now known as Holloway Road,
to the northern boundary of the parish, and which was lined at intervals with
terraces of private houses. At this time the population of the parish was
comparatively small, numbering 55,776 persons, according to the census of
1841, who were housed for the most part in the Upper Street, the Lower
Street, now known as Essex Road, in the Back Street, better known to-day as
Liverpool Road, and in the streets leading off them. The long road, which we call
Caledonian Road, was at that time known at its south or King's Cross end as
Battle Bridge Road, a historic name which one could wish had been retained,
and north of the Regent's Canal as Thornhill Bridge Road, and was throughout
its entire length almost bare of houses, except only at that part of it where
St. George's Road, although it now terminates in Roman Road, ran into it from
Holloway Road. In those days Lower Street ceased at Rotherfield Street, beyond
which point there was hardly a house, although the road itself continued on
under the name of Balls Pond Road to the point where it met St. Paul's Road,
and thence to Dalston It is, however, only this latter portion of the road
which is known to-day under that name, the more western portion, with Lower
Street, being now hidden under the title of Essex Road. Prior even to that
date the continuation of Lower Street was called Lower Road. At that time
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