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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1902.
To the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors,—
I.—INTRODUCTION-
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE CENSUS OF 1901.
St. Pancras consists of a northern, central, and southern portion. The first
north of Prince of Wales and Leigh ton Roads and co-extensive with the North
(Parliamentary) Division, the last south of the Euston Road, and corresponding
with the South (Parliamentary) Division, and the central portion between these
two containing the East and West (Parliamentary) Divisions.
South St. Pancras, in the middle is popularly regarded as part of Bloomsbury
(but Bloomsbury is now part of Holborn Borough), on the east it adjoins
Clerkenwell (now part of Finsbury Borough), and on the west it adjoins
Marylebone Borough.
Central St. Pancras contains half-a-dozen towns—Somers Town, Kentish
Town, Camden Town, Camden New Town, and Agar Town (displaced by the
Midland and Great Northern Railway depots)—besides the whole of Chalk
Farm and a large part of Regent's Park.
North St. Pancras contains half-a dozen parks, mostly built over—Maitland
Park, Gospel Oak, St. John's Park, Dartmouth Park, Fitzroy Park—besides
the whole of Parliament Hill Fields (adjoining Hampstead Heath), and of
Waterlow Park, and part of Highgate Town.