Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the sanitary condition of the District of the Middle Temple for the year 1894
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follows that he is also the Sanitary Authority. Sections
106 and 107 of the Public Health (London) Act enjoin that
every Sanitary Authority shall appoint:-
(a) One or more Medical Officers of Health for their
district; and,
(b) An adequate number of fit and proper persons as
Sanitary Inspectors, and every each Inspector shall be
a parson qualified and competent by his knowledge and
experience to perform the duties of his office.
The following facts may be gleaned from a perusal of the
table given in the Appendix:-
Area. The Middle Temple covers 4 acres.
Houses. At the Census of 1891 there were 30 inhabited
and 16 uninhabited houses, containing an average of 3.1
ents to each house. According to the 1881 Census the number
of houses Inhabited and population was exactly the same as in
1891.Ths Middle Temple has a population density of 23.7
persons to an acre as against 57.1 par acre for the whole of
tendon.
Population. As in 1801, so in 1891, the masher of those
occupying residential chambers in the Middle Temple was 95.
The diurnal or visiting population, however, is a much larger
one than that made up of those who pass both day and night
in the Inn.