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St Pancras 1901

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

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§ 2. OPEN SPACES AND PUBLIC BATHS.

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

Public Open Spaces.—The parks, gardens, and other open spaces secured against building operations in and adjoining St. Pancra?, 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, 1901.Garden or Open Space.Area.Maintaining Authority.
A.R.p.
Kentish Town .59Parliament Fields & Hampstead Heath50710London County Council
"• •Water low Park2900" "
"• •High gate Cemetery3800Cemetery Company
"• •Pond Square, &c., Highgate0328St. Pancras Borough Council
"• •Lismore Circus0226" "
Regent's Park87Primrose Hill and Regent's Park4000H.M. Government
Camden Town90St. Martin's Gardens1o 00St. Pancras Borough Council
"• •College Garden0017" "
"• •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. William Nisbet Blair, M.I.C.E., the Engineer, compiled the following
table, from which it is seen that more than one-fourth of St. Pancras is public
or semi-public open space and railways.