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tration. (e) It is highly satisfactory to be able to report a negative result for the first year
since 1904, when formal samples of milk were first purchased for examination as to the
presence of tubercle bacilli. Since that year the annual percentage affected among 50 samples
obtained, has varied between 24 in each of two series taken in 1925 to about 25 per cent,
in two series taken in 1921. (f) Increased control over imported milk is being attempted by the
Public Health (Imported Milk) Regulations, 1926. Among other requirements, it is now
necessary for any importer of such milk to register with the Local Authority. At the time of
writing this report, none such had registered in the City. (g) Progress continues to be
made both with the closure of houses in the Hutchison Street and Vine Street insanitary
areas. When a tenant of an unfit house leaves, it is not allowed to be reoccupied. The
accommodation which is in course of erection at Shepherdess Walk and Middlesex Street
is now well advanced, and when the dwellings are available the tenants in the insanitary
areas will be removed thereto, and so enable these areas to be properly dealt with.
Accommodation will also be available for many of the occupants of separate insanitary
houses within the City, in respect of which at the present moment, owing to lack of
alternative accommodation, suitable action cannot be taken.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION.
Area.—The City of London (excluding The Temple) comprises an area of 661 acres
(excluding tidal water and foreshore), or 1 .032 square miles, equal to a square of 1 .016
miles to a side.
The area of "Registration London" is 74,817 acres (excluding tidal water and foreshore),
or 116.9 square miles, equal to a square of 10.81 miles to a side.
Density (1926).—City of London, Registration District, at night, 20 0 persons to an
acre; City of London, Registration District, during the day, *644.1 persons to an acre;
Registration London, at night, 616 persons to an acre.
Annual Rateable Value.—The rateable value of property within the administrative
county of London (including the City) was £55,917,174 on 6th April, 1926; whilst on the same
date the corresponding rateable value of property in the City of London was £8,025,066
or about one-seventh of the whole County.
The sum receivable from a penny rate is £33,395.
Population.—The undermentioned figures are extracted from the Report of the
Registrar-General on the Census of England and Wales, 1921:—
Area, Inhabited Houses. Population.
Statute
Acres. 1911. 1921 1911. 1921.
City of London (Not including the Temple) 661 2,784 2,398 19,657 13,709
These figures represent the population on the nights of the 3rd April, 1911, and the
19th Tune. 1921.

There is only one registration district in the City.
The estimated population of the City for the year 1926 is 13,230.
The day Census taken in 1911 showed that the day population was 364,061 persons,
and also that 1,077,155 persons and 94,095 vehicles entered and left the City on the day
the count was taken.
* This figure refers only to persons " actively engaged in the City during the daytime," and is based upon
the Imperial Census taken in June, 1921.