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The density of the population was 107 persons per acre contrasted with 60
persons per acre for the County of London.
The character of population shows wide and striking contrasts, including as it
does the occupants of expensive residential llats, the migratory population in
the large hotels, the student class in the Bloomsbury boarding houses, residents
in large commercial, social and philanthropic hostels, working class population
in model dwellings and tenement lodging houses, and a large proportion of very
poor people in common lodging houses.
Although the number of hotels and boarding houses keeps increasing, the
Borough is becoming less and less residential and more and more important as a
business centre. The number of factories, workshops, workplaces and offices
keeps increasing so that we are adding to our very large and crowded day
population of London's workers.