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are published in a separate report which contains much
useful and interesting information, and a statement of
their receipts and expenditure. During the year an
election of a Commissioner has been rendered necessaryowing
to the removal of Mr. T. H. D. Berridge from the
district, to fill whose place Dr. S. Clewin Griffith was on
the 9th February elected.
Equalisation of Rates.
In the last report reference was made to the Census
which was then about to be taken. The result so far as
the St. Giles District was concerned was accurately anticipated,
the return showing that the population had
decreased from 39,778, the figure at which it was enumerated
in 1891, to 38,237. This has added still further to
the amount payable by the District towards the fund
established pursuant to the London Equalisation of Rates
Act, 1894.
Improvements.
It is to be regretted that no steps have yet been taken
with a view to carrying out what is admitted to be an
obvious necessity, viz., new means of communication north
and south between High Holborn and the Strand.
The most important improvement which has engaged
attention during the year has been the proposal of the
London County Council, made largely in consequence of
the course adopted by the Board, for the removal of the
block of buildings standing between Bozier's Court and
Tottenham Court Road. A Bill enabling this improvement
to be carried out is at the present time before the