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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 Giles (Camden) 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: As shewing the great use of underground lavatories, it may be interesting to give the result of a census of the persons using those within the St. Giles District, taken in January and February, 1898.

As shewing the great use of underground lavatories, it may be interesting to give the result of a census of the persons using those within the St. Giles District, taken in January and February, 1898.

Men's Lavatories.Total number using convenience in one week.Number using water closets.Number using uriDals.Average per day of Total.Equals per annum.
Shaftesbury Avenue15,21074314,4672,173793,145
New Oxford Street51,8083,45648,3527,4012,701,365
High Holborn23,7271,24322,4843,3901,237,350
The number of persons using the urinals were obtained by deducting those using the w.c's from the total.
The persons using the Lavatory basins were not considered, it being assumed that every person using; them also used either a water closet or urinal.
Women's Lavatories.Total number using convenience in one week.Number using water closets.Number using lavatory basins.Average per day of Total.Equals per annum.
Shaftesbury Avenue59959188631,390
New Oxford Street3,5923,461131513187,245
High Holborn9358805513348,545

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Public Urinals.
The public urinal in Morwell Street, which stood upon
a piece of land leased from the Duke of Bedford, was, at
the request of the Duke's representative, closed, and the
materials forming the same were subsequently removed.
The following is a list of the public urinals above
ground in the St. Giles District:—
Compartments.
Colonnade 6
Dunn's Passage 5
Galen Place 3
Little Guilford Street 4
Seven Dials 6
Compartments.
Short's Gardens 6
Southampton Mews 2
Torrington Mews 1
Whetstone Park 3
The quantity of water used at the above ground urinals
within the District, during the year was 1,885,000 gallons,