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DISINFECTION.
During the year 290 rooms were fumigated, after Infectious Diseases and notices
served to strip and cleanse them. The following articles were stoved in the disinfecting
apparatus:—
Beds 123
Mattresses 61
Pillows 346
Sheets 133
Blankets 358
Counterpanes 122
Carpets 26
Wearing Apparel 336
Disinfection, after Infectious Disease, consists of the following process:
1. Fumigation of the air of the room, 2. Stripping, washing, and white-washing, the
respective surfaces, and 3. Stoving the stuff materials, well boiling the linen and
cotton, and washing the furniture.
The washing water if mixed with the disinfectant recommended to your Works
Department for use, viz. Soluble Creosote, will require no soap.
The Stoving can only be effectually accomplished in a properly constructed disinfecting
apparatus, such as your Vestry has provided for free public use.
LIGHT AND AIR.
Any causes obstructing the light or air, are injurious to the well being of both
animals and plants, and above all of man.
Density of Population increases in proportion to the density of dwellings, and of
the density of individuals living therein, and the death rate of a district is in
direct proportion to its density of population.
In 1881, the density of the Metropolis was 54 persons per acre.
„ „ St. Pancras was 88 „
In 1886, „ „ is 90 ,,
In 1881 the density of Persons per acre in the sub-districts was—
Regent's Park 93—including Canal and Parks.
Tottenham Court 192 „ but little free space.
Gray's Inn Lane 196 „ „ „
Somers Town 188 „ Railway Termini.
Camden Town 102 „ Canal, Railway Terminus, and Gas works.
Kentish Town 54 „ Canal, Railway Depots, and Fields.
It must therefore be the care of St. Pancras to insure against increasing density,
especially in the crowded parts of the southern sub-districts.
Open Spaces, of small extent exist in various parts of the Parish, and should be
allowed to continue to exist, not only as breathing spices, bat as recreation grounds