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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Pancras 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE VIII.
Seven hundred and ninety-six notices have been served during the
year; the custom of serving final notices has been discontinued.
It has been necessary in 15 cases to enforce compliance with notices
by Police Court proceedings.
The market places are frequently visited, and 30 seizures of stale
and unsound fish, fruit, vegetables, and other articles of food exposed
for sale were made during the year.
There were amongst the articles seized—
FISH AND POULTRY.
Plaice, 5 kits, 1 pad, 2 turns, 1 trunk, and 206 not packed.
Haddocks, 1 brl., herrings, 4 boxes.
Periwinkles, 4 bushel, whelks, 1 bushel.
Mackerel, 3 pads and 4 boxes; crabs, 1 barrel.
Soles, 1 Trunk. 1 Goose.
MEAT.
1 piece of mutton; 441bs. of pork: 531bs. of beef, and 117 rabbits
FRUIT.
700 cocoa nuts and 3 baskets of cherries.

Table: TABLE IX. Area, Houses, &c., 1871, in St. Pancras.

TABLE IX. Area, Houses, &c., 1871, in St. Pancras.

Area in Statute Acres2,672
Inhabited Houses24,103
Uninhabited Houses1,273
Houses being built142
Male Population103,283
Female ,,118,182
Total221,465

Table: TABLE X. Area, Houses, &c., 1871, in Registrar's Sub-Districts.

TABLE X. Area, Houses, &c., 1871, in Registrar's Sub-Districts.

SUB-DISTRICT.Area in Acres.HousesPersons.
Inhabited.Uninhabited.Buildings.
Regent's Park41943661562638,200
Tottenham Court1442517187629,370
Gray's Inn Lane1542923125129,221
Somers Town183385799—38,533
Camden Town170196948—17,943
Kentish Town1602853165810968,198