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St Giles (Camden) 1857

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: in the districts mentioned. As I shall have occasion to institute many comparisons between St. Giles and the surrounding districts, I have thrown the chief facts which I have been able to ascertain, concerning the social peculiarities of each, into a tabular form.

in the districts mentioned. As I shall have occasion to institute many comparisons between St. Giles and the surrounding districts, I have thrown the chief facts which I have been able to ascertain, concerning the social peculiarities of each, into a tabular form.

District.Area in Acres.House to Acre, 1851.Persons to House, 1851.Elevation above High Water mark.Soil.Population.Percentage of residents born in Ireland, 1851.Value of property assessed to county rate, divided by the population, 1857.Average annual value of house, 1843.Pence per £ expended for relief of the poor, 1849.Medical Institutions of the district in which deaths occur.
1851.Corrected for 1857.
St. Pancras2,7167.28.973 ft.Almost all Clay.166,956195,50063£s.£d.Workhouse. Strand Workheuse, University College Hosp., Royal Free Hospital.
3124110 (13½d. 1857.)
St. Marylebone1,50910.910.087 ft.Gravel and Clay about equal.157.696171,2009.55157110Workhouse. Middlesex Hosp. Lying-in Hosp.
Metropolis78,0294.17.639 ft.—2,362,2362,668,0008.5?4013—
Holborn19623010.853 ft.Gravel and Clay, about equal.46,62148,00016.9316528Workhouse. Children's Hosp.
Strand17423.611.250 ft.Gravel.44,46045,0009.55156611King's College Hospital.
St. Martin's3058.010.738 ft.Gravel.24,64024,7008.71021199Workhouse. Charing Cross Hospital,
St. Giles24520.011.668 ft.Gravel.54,21454,30020.04166013Workhouse. Lying-in Hosp.