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St Pancras 1900

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

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EXEMPTIONS.
It may be useful as a reminder to repeat that—
Government Buildings are exempt from the control of Sanitary Authorities.
The Crown Estate Acts, 5th Geo IV., cap. 100 (Regent's Park Act), 11 & 12
Vict., cap. 112 (Commissioners of Sewers Act), and 14 & 15 Vict., cap. 95
(H.M. Commissioners of Works Acts) exempt the houses on the Crown Estate
round Regent's Park.
Various public and private Acts exempt the Railway Companies, either
generally or particularly.

Table: §2. OPEN SPACES.Public Open Spaces—The parks, gardens, and other open spaces secured against building operations in and adjoining St. Pancras, together with their situation, approximate area, and the authority under which they are maintained, are enumerated in the following table:—

§2. OPEN SPACES.

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

Sub-Districts.Density of Persons per acre, Census 1891.Garden or Open Space.Area.Maintaining Authority.
A.R.P.
Kentish Town,.59Parliament Fields & Hampstead Heath50710London County Council
„..Waterlow Park2900„ „
„..Highgate Cemetery3800Cemetery Company
„..Pond Square, &c., Highgate0328St. Pancras Borough Council
„..Lismore Circus0226„ „
„..College Garden0017„ „
Regent's Park87Primrose Hill and Regent's Park40000H.M. Government
Camden Town90St. Martin's Gardens130St. Pancras Borough Council
„, ,St. Pancras Gardens510„ „
Somers Town181St. James Gardens2231„ „
Tottenham Court183Whitfield Gardens020London County Council
Gray's Inn Lane178St. George's Gardens220St. Pancras Borough Council
„..St. Andrew's Gardens110„ „

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Mr. Wm. Nisbet Blair, M.I.C.E., the Engineer, has compiled the following
table, from which it will be seen that of 2672 acres, tlie total area of
St. Pancras, 688 acres are unbuilt upon, and that more than one fourth of St.
Pancras is public or semi-public open space and railways.