Plan of sanitary improvements of the City of Edinburgh, August 17, 1866 / by Messrs Cousin and Lessels.

Date:
1866
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Credit: Plan of sanitary improvements of the City of Edinburgh, August 17, 1866 / by Messrs Cousin and Lessels. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    moval of the old tenements. These elevations should be of a plain but marked character, in harmony with those fine specimens of national architecture of the early part of the 17th century, still to be found in great purity in so many of those neglected and overcrowded closes now referred to. Good sites will also be found for churches, schools, reading rooms, and large business premises. Probable estimates have been prepared by Mr Paterson, City Assessor, of the cost of acquiring the property in the several districts; and we have prepared probable estimates of the return, or sums that may fairly be expected to be acquired from the feuing or sale of the ground on the lines of the new streets of these districts. Mr Paterson, in accordance with the instructions of the Lord Provost’s Committee, has also ascertained the number of families that would be displaced by the removal of the old tenements in those districts. And, in order to ascertain how far this destruction of house accommodation would be met by the new plan, we have prepared sketch plans of houses such as appear to be suitable for the several districts, and the results are as follows :— Table furnished by Mr Paterson :— Number of Families to be displaced, and Probable Cost of acquiring the Property. Block. No. of Value under compulsory t. Locality. Families. Purchase. From Halkerston’s Wynd to Leith Wynd, 420 £33,000 From Leith Wynd to Big Jack’s Close, 516 44,745 East side of St Mary’s Wynd to Miln’s Close, 881 28,480 Niddry Street to St Mary’s Wynd, 459 41,250 Stevenlaw’s Close to Old Fishmarket Close, 255 19,200 Adam Square to Brown Square, Cowgate, High School Wynd, and High 827 54,000 School Yards, . 70 4,740 Grassmarket (both sides), . . . . 182 17,500 Carry forward, 2,610 £242,915