London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1897
Annual report from the chairman of the health committee on the business of the department
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The foregoing figures refer to the Registration Sub-Districts, as shown on the
Map prefacing this Report, and these Sub-Districts differ widely from the
Parliamentary Sub-Divisions, which form the basis of the Sanitary Inspectors'
Districts, nevertheless they indicate more or less the characters of these districts,
or of parts of them.
OPEN SPACES.
Public Open Spaces.—The parks, gardens, and other public open spaces secured against building operations in St. Pancras, together with their situation, approximate area, and the authority under which they are maintained, are enumerated, as in previous years, in the following table: —
| Sub-Districts. | Density of Persons per acre, Census 1891. | Garden or Open Space. | Area. | Maintaining Authority. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | R. | P. | ||||
| Kentish Town | 59 | Parliament Fields | 267 | 2 | 0 | London County Council |
| „ | .. | Waterlow Park | 29 | 0 | 0 | „ „ |
| „ | .. | Highgate Cemetery | 38 | 0 | 0 | Cemetery Company |
| „ | .. | Pond Square, &c., Highgate | 0 | 3 | 28 | St. Pancras V estry |
| „ | .. | South Grove, High-gate | 0 | 0 | 12 | „ „ |
| „ | .. | Liemore Circus | 0 | 2 | 26 | „ „ |
| „ | .. | Collee Garden | 0 | 0 | 17 | „ „ |
| Regent's Park | 87 | Primrose Hill | 400 | 0 | 0 | H.M. Government |
| Regent's Park | ||||||
| Camden Town | 90 | St. Martin's Gardens | 1 | 3 | 0 | St. Pancras V estry |
| „ | .. | St. Pancras Gardens | 5 | 1 | 0 | „ „ |
| Somers Town | 181 | St. James Gardens | 2 | 2 | 31 | „ „ |
| Tottenham Court | 183 | Whitfield Burial Ground | ? | London Counly Council | ||
| Gray's Inn Lane | 178 | St. George's Gardens | 2 | 0 | 7 | St. Pancras Vestry |
| „ | .. | St. Andrew'sGardens | 1 | 2 | 15 | „ „ |
DWELLINGS.
House-to-house Inspections.—The number of streets, or parts of streets, inspected
from house to house during the year, was 8; consisting of 193 houses, 183 occupied,
and 5 unoccupied, containing 1012 rooms, 1006 occupied, and 6 unoccupied; let
to 457 families, consisting of 1103 adults and 671 children under 10 years of
age. Upon these houses 108 notices were served.