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TO THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND
COUNCILLORS of the METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
OF FIN SBUR Y.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my sixteenth Annual Report
dealing with the Health, Sanitary condition, Vital and other
Statistics of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex, now forming
the greater portion of the Eastern Division of your Borough ;
and it may interest you to know that this Report is the 44th,
and last of the series, the first 28 having been furnished by my
predecessor, Dr. F. W. Pavy, who was also the first Medical
Officer of Health to the late Vestry, he having been elected to
that position soon after the passing of the Metropolis Local
Management Act of 1855.
The Sanitary District of St. Luke comprised an area of 240
acres, including Open Spaces, the Basin and Waterway of the
Regent's Canal. The number of separate Assessments in the
district were 6,538, of which 3,089 were occupied as dwellings.
The Statistics of Marriages, Births and Deaths contained in
this Report, relate to the fifty-two weeks ending December,
1900, and are calculated upon a population, estimated to the
middle of the year, of 39,790, being a decrease upon the ascertained
population at 1896 of 1,737 persons, and a rate of decrease
which has been steadily maintained for the past 35 years as
indicated by the following figures :—
The population of the Parish at the Census of 1871 was 54,969
1881 „ 46,849
1891 „ 42,440
1896 „ 41,527°
*Since this Report has been in course of preparation a preliminary return
giving the result of the recent Census has been furnished, which shows a further
reduction in the population as follows :—
Census, 1901.
City Road Sub-Registration District 25,404
Finsbury „ 9,970
Total for the Parish 35,374