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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
Day Population.—For many years the Strand District has been
becoming less a residential district and more a business one, the
number of persons found sleeping in it does not therefore,
represent the true population of the District. In the City o
London, a day census has been taken and by bringing these into
relation with the number of persons sleeping in the City, and the
number of bouses used only by day, a factor is obtained, which on
being applied to the conditions existing in the Strand District,
gives 83,712 as the number of persons actively employed in the
District during the day. This of course, does not take cognizance
of the large number of persons passing through the District, or
who frequent the Law Courts, Somerset House, Covent Garden
Market, the theatres and music halls.
Census of 1901.—It is a matter of importance to centrallysituated
districts, that at the next census, the Imperial authorities
should take the number of persons actively employed in the
various districts. In view of the Census Bill having to be
introduced into Parliament in 1900, the Board, on the
recommendation of the Health Committee, passed the following
resolutions on the subject:—
(a) That the Census Act of 1900 should provide for an
Intermediary Census in 1906.
(b) That the Census be not taken on Easter or Whit-
Sunday.
(c) That the Census Act should be passed as early as possible,
and certainly not later than Easter, 1900, in order that
there may be time for proper arrangements to be made.
(d) That the Census Returns should not be primarily based
on Poor Law areas, but on the areas of Municipal and
Sanitary Authorities; and that the age and occupation
of the inhabitants of every sanitary area, and subdistricts
of the larger areas, be separately tabulated and
published.