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Area included in the L.C.C. Improvement and Syndicate Extension. The solid
lines indicate the streets" as widened.
garden the land between the new street in continuation of
Grosvenor Road and the new embankment wall extending from
Lambeth Bridge to the Victoria Tower Gardens. Several properties on
this land have been demolished, and the Council have resolved meanwhile
to level up and use a portion of the vacant ground as a playground
for children under 14 years of age.
District No. 3.—The census population of this district was 2,841,
which, after deduction of the inhabitants of common lodging-houses,
becomes 2,750. Closure of houses in the County Council's area did not
begin until the end of 1904, when the number of deaths dropped from
an average (1901-4) of 65 a year, 24.6 per 1,000, to 51 in 1905, 36
in 1906, 37 in 1907. Probably the high rate of these earlier years