This metal ticket is for a dwelling at the back of a shop in Young Street in Edinburgh. Such tickets were an attempt to reduce over-crowding, by linking the volume of dwellings to the number of people who could live there.
Metal plate or house ticket, from 5 Young Street, Edinburgh, probably mid 19th to early 20th century
An 1866 report on Edinburgh stated 'in no part of the world does there exist greater over-crowding of population'. In the same year Glasgow was the first to introduce a system of ticket control for dwelling houses.
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