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St Giles (Camden) 1893
Annual report for the year ending 25th March 1894
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THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE ST. GILES
DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present you the thirty-eighth
Annual Report upon the sanitary conditions of the District,
for the year ending 31st December, 1893. It has been
drawn up on the lines of previous Reports, and contains the
usual tables and statistics.
The area, houses, and population of the St. Giles District, and its Registration Sub-districts were, according to the corrected Census Returns, 1891 (53 and 54 Vict., c. 6L) :—
| Registration District and Sub-districts. | Area in Statute acres. | Houses. | Population. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabited. | Uninhabited. | Buildings. | Males. | Females. | Persons. | ||
| St. George, Bloomsbury (the whole Parish) ... | 121 | 2,032 | 195 | 4 | 7,653 | 9,042 | 16,695 |
| St. Giles - in - the • Field,-(south part of the Parish) | 64 | 827 | 82 | 10 | 7,065 | 6,389 | 13,454 |
| St. Giles - in - the - Fields (north part of the Parish) | 59 | 870 | 206 | 27 | 4,632 | 5,001 | 9,633 |
| Total | 244 | 3,729 | 483 | 41 | 19,350 | 20,432 | 39,782 |
The decrease in number of inhabited houses between
1881 and 1891, was 22.9.
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