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The general health of the City has been
satisfactory, no epidemics have disturbed the
public mind, and the same excellent condition
of cleanliness of the pavements and roadways
has been maintained in spite of the enormous
traffic, pedestrian and vehicular, to which they
are subjected.
The City of London Registration District
comprises 672T acres excluding tidal water or
foreshore.
The number of inhabited houses and holdings,
as shewn by the Day-Census taken in
1891, was 27,827, and therefore the numbers
given in the Imperial Census at 5,819 is misleading,
and evidently applied only to houses
in which one or more persons slept on the
night of enumeration, whilst with much greater
reason and justice, the Day-Census included
houses or tenements in which persons were
actively employed during the day.
In discussing the general sanitary condition
of a district having an enormous floating