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DENSITY OF POPULATION AND OPEN SPACE.

At present the public open spaces are as follows:—
Parliament Fields—Kentish Town Sub-District.
Primrose Hill—Regent's Park Sub-District.
Regent's Park— ,, „ ,,
St. George's Burial Ground—Gray's Inn Lane Sub-District.
St. Andrews „ „ — „ „ _ „
St. James „ „ —Somers Town Sub-District.
St. Pancras Gardens—Camden Town Sub-District.
St. Martins' Burial Ground— ,, „
Whitfield Burial Ground—Tottenham Court Sub-District.
The two latter are not yet acquired. There is a plot of ground entirely surrounded
by houses occupied by an industrial class upon which formerly stood the
notorious Poplar Place, and which threatens to be again built upon. The density
of population in the Gray's Inn Lane Sub-District is great, and it would be a
retrogressive step if dwelling houses were built upon these old foundations to
perpetuate the crowded and insanitary condition of this area. The vacant plot is
not larger than the open space usually attached to industrial dwellings of recent
contruction.
DWELLINGS.
Industrial Dwellings replace but slowly the houses erected many years ago upon
the single house principal and let out in single or double rooms to the industrial
classes. The overcrowding and want of ventilation in these houses, is, in the
absence of any Bye-laws, but inadequately controlled, and in this respect they are
not so well placed as "Common" Lodging houses.
The House to House inspections were carried on regularly during the year. A
list of streets so inspected follows at the end of the Report.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
There are 30 Common Lodging Houses in the Parish, which are maintained in
good sanitary condition, a list of these is appended to the Report.
CANAL BOATS.
Canal Boats are now carefully registered and regulated with great benefit to
and improvement in the class that dwell upon them, and especially to the children.
No Canal boat was found unregistered during the year.