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THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE ST. GILES
DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you the Annual
Report on the Vital Statistics, and the conditions affecting
the health of the District for the registration year ending
December 31st, 1892.
Vital Statistics.
The District of St. Giles, comprising the two parishes
of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, has
an area of 245 statute acres.
It forms one of the central groups of districts in the
Metropolis, and for civil registration purposes is divided
into three sub-districts:—St. George, Bloomsbury, the
parish ; St. Giles, South, that part of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
to the south of a line along the middle of High Holborn
and Broad Street, and to the east of a line along the middle
of Great and Little St. Andrew Street; St. Giles, North,
the part of the parish not comprised in the foregoing.
The average elevation is very favourable, being 68 feet
above Trinity high-water mark.
The population, according to the preliminary report of the
Census 1891, was—
St. George, Bloomsbury 16,695
St. Giles-in-the-Fields, North 9,633
„ „ South 13,450
23,083
Total Inhabitants 39,778
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