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Classes Committee as they did not appear to me to be in a state so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit for humau habitation, or in which any alterations
could reasonably be required.
Negotiations for the purchase of a site in Short's Gardens for the erection by
the Council of dwellings for the working classes are now practically completed.
The compulsory notification of all forms of tuberculosis came into force on the
1st February, 1913.
The Public Health Committee during the year have given much further
consideration to the provision of a Tuberculosis Dispensary. Proposed schemes
for the use of tuberculosis dispensaries at St. Bartholomew's, the Royal
Free, and the University College Hospitals, have been discussed, and the
Council is now awaiting a reply from the Middlesex Hospital respecting the use
of their dispensary by this Council. The Memorandum of the Insurance Committee
for the County of London on the treatment of insured persons at tuberculosis
dispensaries was adjourned by our Public Health Committee, pending the
report of a conference of delegates of Metropolitan, City and Borough Councils
on the subject.
Further details respecting these and other matters will be found under their
respective headings.
I desire to express my high appreciation of the assistance and hearty
co-operation that I have received from the staff of the Public Health Department
during the year.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W. A. BOND.
POPULATION AND HOUSES.
The enumerated Population at the Census taken on Sunday, April 2nd, 1911,
was 49,357, a reduction of 10,048 on the previous census of 1901 or 16.9 per cent.
During the previous decennium 1891-1901 there was a reduction of 7,376 or ll.0
per cent. 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 have now a very large day population.
The density of the population was 122 persons per acre in comparison with 61
for London.
The number of inhabited buildings was 7,985 and uninhabited 1,393 and
38 were in course of erection.
Further details were given in my last Annual Report.
During the past twelve months a number of volumes giving further details
respecting the Census, 1911 have been published from which the following
information has been obtained:-