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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 1891

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

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existing houses might be selected some opposition would be raised thereto. It
would therefore, perhaps, be more desirable to erect a temporary structure on a
piece of Vacant ground within reasonable distance of the Vestry Hall, as suggested
in my last Aunual Report.
IV - SANITATION.
OPEN SPACES.

Table: The parks, public gardens and other open spaces secured against building operations in St. Pancras, together with their situation, approximate area, and the authority under which they are maintained are enumerated, as in previous years, in the following table:—

The parks, public gardens and other open spaces secured against building operations in St. Pancras, together with their situation, approximate area, and the authority under which they are maintained are enumerated, as in previous years, in the following table:—

Garden or Open SpacesMaintaining Authority.Area.Sub-Districts and Density of Persons per acre, 1881.
A.R.P.
Parliament FieldsLondon County Council26720Kentish Town, 54
Waterlow Park>t a tt2900” ”
Highgate CemeteryCemetery Company3800” ”
Pond Square, &c.HighgateSt. Pancras Yestry0328” ”
South Grove, High gate Road” ”0012” ”
Lismore Circus” ”0226” ”
College Garden” ”0017” ”
Primrose Hill ParkH. M. Government40000Regent's Park, 93
Regent's Park” ”” ”
St. Martin's GardensSt. Pancras Vestry130Camden Town, 102
St. Pancras Gardens” ”510” ”
St. James's Gardens” ”2231Somers Town, 188
WhitfieldBurialGround??Tottenham Court, 192
St. George's GardensSt. Pancras Yestry207Gray's Inn Lane, 196
St. Andrew's Gardens” ”1215” ” ”

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DWELLINGS.
House to House Inspections.—The number of streets inspected from house to
house during the year was 71, consisting of 1729 houses, of which 1663 were
occupied, and 66 were unoccupied and passed over. These houses contained
10,559 rooms, of which 382 were unoccupied, and 10,177 occupied by 4,445
separate families, consisting of 10,673 adults and 6,813 children. (Table 96).
A large number of notices were served for the abatement of nuisances in these
houses which were systematically inspected, the notices served on casual complaints
being very small. (Table 9a).