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The following is the report on the survey: —
General Description of Ward F.
The St. George-the-Martyr Ward (Ward F) of the Metropolitan Borough of
Holborn is a fairly densely populated area of 39 acres, partly residential and partly
commercial and professional. It lies between Guilford Street on the north, Eagle
Street on the south, Southampton Row on the west and Lamb's Conduit Street
and Eed Lion Street on the east. Within the Ward there are a number of
institutional buildings, viz., the Hospital for Sick Children; National Hospital for
Paralysed and Epileptics (Queen Square Hospital); London Homoeopathic
Hospital; Italian Hospital; the Examination Hall of the English Conjoint Board
of Physicians and Surgeons; the L.C.C. Day Training College and School of Arts
and Crafts; St. George-the-Martyr Church and School; and St. John the
Evangelist Church and School. There are two open spaces, Queen Square
(⅝ acre) and Bed Lion Square ( ⅔acre).
The commercial and professional part includes local shopping centres such as
Theobald's Road, Bed Lion Street and Lamb's Conduit Street. The residential
part includes boarding houses (e.g., in Guilford Street), mixed residential property
(e.g., Great Ormond Street and Queen Square) and a number of flats or tenement
dwellings (e.g., Dalmeny Mansions, Theobald's Boad; Halsey House, Bed Lion
Square; Kingsgate Mansions, Bed Lion Square; Kingsway Mansions, Bed Lion
Square; Bedford House, New North Street; and Princeton Mansions, Bed Lion
Street). In a number of highways in the Ward, e.g., Lansdowne Mews, Gage
Street, and Harpur Mews, the whole or by far the greater number of the premises
are used for business purposes only.
At the 1921 Census the Ward was occupied (as regards sleeping) by 7,220
persons (185 persons per acre)* residing in 634 structually separated dwellings and
occupying 4,109 rooms, i.e., 0.75 room per person.

* The density of the Borough at the Census, 1921, was 107 persons per acre, and of
Jjondon as a whole, 60 persons per acre.
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