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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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Registration District and. Sub-Districts, with their constituent Civil Parish; Area; Houses and Population, 1901 and 1911; and Separate Occupiers, 1911. (The Registration District is co-extensive with the Civil Parish.)
| Registration District and Sub-Districts and Civil Parish. | Area in Statute Acres. | Houses. | Families or Separate Occupiers. | Population. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabited. | Inhabited. | Building. | Persons. | Males. | Females. | |||||||
| Land and Inland Water. | Inland Water only. | |||||||||||
| 1901. | 1911. | 1911. | 1901. | 1911. | 1901. | 1911. | 1901. | 1911. | ||||
| ST. PANCRAS | 2694.4 | 38.5 | 23715 | 22246 | 28 | 52994 | 235317 | 218387 | 114305 | 106728 | 121012 | 111659 |
| West | 612.7 | — | 6478 | — | — | 14525 | 60562 | 58275 | 28767 | 28722 | 30684 | 29553 |
| South | 296.7 | — | 4844 | — | - | 10259 | 55707 | 45255 | 27795 | 22957 | 27912 | 22298 |
| East | 632.3 | — | 5771 | — | - | 14068 | 60320 | 57451 | 28892 | 27706 | 31428 | 29745 |
| North | 1152.5 | — | 6622 | — | - | 14142 | 58728 | 57406 | 28851 | 27343 | 30988 | 30063 |
CENSUS 1901.
Institutions.—Persons enumerated in Workhouse Establishments and in Hospitals, &c.
| Number of District and Sub-District. | Registration District and Sub-District. | Civil Parish. | Institution. | Special Inmates (Patients, Paupers, Lunatics, Ac.) | Officials and their Families. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons. | Males. | Females. | Persons. | Males. | Females. | ||||
| 8 | St. Pancras— | ||||||||
| 1 | Regent's Park | St. Pancras | St. Saviour's Hospital for Cancer | 22 | - | 22 | 20 | 2 | 18 |
| Boys' Home, Industrial School | 136 | 136 | - | 7 | 4 | 3 | |||
| 2 | Tottenham Court Road | „ | Workhouse Infirmary, Central London Sick Asylum | 244 | 134 | 110 | 39 | 4 | 35 |
| University College Hospital | 161 | 89 | 72 | 79 | 12 | 67 | |||
| Home Hospital. Fitzroy Square | 22 | 12 | 10 | 31 | 2 | 29 | |||
| Metropolitan Throat and Ear Hospital | 4 | 4 | - | 4 | - | 4 | |||
| London Skin Hospital | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Oxygen Home | 17 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 8 | |||
| Medical and Surgical Home | — | — | — | 4 | — | 4 | |||
| St. Patrick's Home for Boys, Industrial School | 52 | 52 | — | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 8 | Gray's Inn Lane | „ | Central London Ophthalmic Hospital | 21 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| Central London Throat and Ear Hospital | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 7 | |||
| British Hospital for Diseases of the Skin | 5 | - | 5 | 2 | - | 2 | |||
| Royal Free Hospital | 122 | 76 | 46 | 66 | 11 | 55 | |||
| 4 | Somers Town | „ | New Hospital for Women | 38 | - | 38 | 32 | 1 | 31 |
| London Temperance Hospital | 76 | 34 | 42 | 61 | 5 | 56 | |||
| 5 | Camden Town | „ | Workhouse | 2166 | 879 | 1287 | 110 | 17 | 93 |
| North-West London Hospital | 45 | 21 | 24 | 29 | 4 | 25 | |||
| 6 | Kentish Town | „ | Workhouse Infirmary | 470 | 246 | 224 | 85 | 6 | 79 |
| Casual Wards: | 16 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||