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Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Being the Report for the Year 1908.
To the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors,—
I.— INTRODUCTION.
I have the honour to present to you the Fifty-Third Annual Report upon
the vital and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
Although the Registration District of St. Pancras has remained practically
the same area since 1856, except for a few adjustments of boundary described
in the Report for the year 1900, the changes in the areas of the Registration
Sub-Districts since the last mentioned date have been great.
Changes were made in 1900, at the Census of 1901, and again in 1906, when
the two southern Sub-Districts were amalgamated. So that now the four
Registration Sub-Districts of St. Pancras, except for slight deviations of the
outer boundary, coincide with the four Parliamentary Divisions.
THE CENSUS.
Working-class Dwellings.— In order to ascertain the distribution of workingclass
dwellings throughout St. Pancras, the Census limit of tenements of less
than five rooms was taken, and the areas of the enumerators of the Census
were adjusted by assumption to fit the Sub-Divisions of the Borough. This
adjustment is necessarily only approximate, but if the Registrar-General could
be persuaded to issue an instruction for the Census of April, 1911, to Superintendent
Registrars so to form their enumerators areas that they should not
overlap municipal sub-divisions of areas, it would be possible to obtain a fairly
accurate distribution of working class dwellings throughout a Borough. The
result of the compilation with the material available is set out in the table
below.