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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 1895

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

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Table: OPEN SPACES.Public Open Spaces—The parks, gardens, and other public open spaces secured against building operations in St. Pancras, together with their situation, approximate area, and the authority under which they are maintained are enumerated, as in previous years, in the following table:—

OPEN SPACES.

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

Sub-Districts.Density of Persons per acre, Census 1891.Garden or Open Space.Area.Maintaining Authority.
A. R. P.
Kentish Town.59Parliament Fields26720London County Council
,,..Waterlow Park2900,, ,,
,,..Highgate Cemetery3800Cemetery Company
,,..Pond Square, &c., Highgate0328St. Pancras Vestry
,,..South Grove, High gate0012,, ,,
,,..Lismore Circus0226,, ,,
,,..College Garden0017,, ,,
Regent's Park87Primrose Hill Park40000H. M. Government
,,..Regent's Park.,, ,,
Camden Town90St. Martin's Gardens130St. Pancras Vestry
,,..St. Pancras Gardens510,, ,,
Somers Town181St. James's Gardens2231,, ,,
Tottenham Court183Whitfield Burial Ground?London County Council
Gray's Inn Lane178St. George's Gardens207St. Pancras Vestry
,,..St. Andrew's Gardens1215,, ,,

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Open Space about Buildings.—In May, 1895, I presented a Report as to the
powers existing with regard to the erection of buildings, as to height, and as to
yards, areas, and other open space about buildings, of which the following notes
are an abbreviation. The provisions are contained in the London Building
Act, 1894, mainly in Part V. of the Act.
The first clause (section thirty-nine) in Part V., provides that public
buildings, buildings of the warehouse class, and buildings used as offices are
excluded from the Act.
Section forty provides that all new domestic buildings with habitable basements
shall have at the rear an open space of at least one hundred square feet
free from any erection thereon. The words "above the level of the adjoining
pavement" must be interpreted to mean the pavement of the yard
or external surface adjoining the basement floor, to make the section
comprehensible.
By the next section (forty-one) it is provided that new buildings in new
streets shall have at the rear an open space of not less than one hundred and
fifty square feet, free from any erection thereon, except a water-closet and
dust-bin. Excepting that where one hundred square feet, as provided by the