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6 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
ABEA _St. George's, Southwark, covers 2841/3 acres. The roads and streets, as
returned to the end of 1898, measure 19 miles, 5 furlongs, 14 poles.
Boundaries. The parish, in shape somewhat like a hatchet, merges upou no
less than six other Sanitary Districts. It is bounded on the north by St. Saviour and
St Olave, on the west by Lambeth, on the south by Newington and Camberwell, and
on the east by Bermondsey.
Geological Formation.—The subsoil of Southwark consists of porous " made "
earth, sand, and gravel, of a depth of fifteen to twenty-five feet, overlying the London
clay. Saline springs rise at times to the surface, and in certain excavated parts of
the parish e.g., Theatre and Music Hall—necessitate the constant use of pumps.
Elevation. The district is low-lying and flat, and lies at an average of half-afoot
below the Trinity high-water mark of the Thames, as against a mean elevation
for London of 47.5 feet above the same mark.
Houses.—I am indebted to the Medical Officer of the Administrative County for
a copy of the Superintendent Registrar's Summary, giving the numbers resident in
the district on the 29th March, 189G. This summary—given under Table I.—shows
also there were 5,512 inhabited and 657 uninhabited houses, which makes an average
of 10 9 persons to a house.
TABLE 1.
London Census, 1896.
Name of Registration
Sub-District.
Area in Acres.
No. of
Schedules.
HOUSES.
POPULATION.
Inhabited.
Uninhabited.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Empty.
Occupied in Daytime
but not at Night.
Building.
Borough Road
64
3,709
1,351
88
79
6
8,328
7,755
16,083
London Road
117
5,337
1,790
134
85
10
10,487
10,829
21,310
Kent Road
103
5,243
2,371
80
128
47
11,426
11,453
22,879
Whole Parish
284
14,349
5,512
302
292
63
30,241
30,037
60,278
Wards.
St. George the Martyr:-
No. 1—St. Michæl's Ward
...
5,705
1,895
150
130
10
12,604
11,589
21 193
No. 2—St. Paul's ,,
...
3 727
1 417
78
61
6
7,011
7,878
14,889
No. 3—St. George's „
...
4,857
2,200
74
101
47
10,626
10,570
21,196
Whole Parish
...
14,349
5,512
302
292
63
30,241
30.037
60,278
, In 1898 St.Gerorge,s had a population density of rather over 212 to the acre—
that is to say, about four times that of London, and four hundred times that of the
Uniter Kingdom. Its Number of tenements is almost exactly double that of its
inhabited houses.of the tenement occupiers, one-third live" in two rooms, and
another third in a single room.There is no reason to alter the statement advanced