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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS
OF
the vestry, of st. james's Westminster.
Reverend Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit for the year
1876 the following Report upon the Public Health
of that important section of London known as the
Parish of St. James's, Westminster.
The District of St. James's Parish covers an area
of J 64 statute acres, and the mean density of the
population, taking as a basis the enumeration of
1871, is 205 persons per acre. For the Registration
of Births and Deaths, the Parish was, until April 1st,
1876, divided into three "Sub-Districts"—that of
St. James's Square with an area of 85 acres, and a
population of 123 persons to the acre, that of
Golden Square with an area of 54 acres, and a
population of 238 persons to the acre, and that
of Berwick Street with an area of 25 acres, and a
population of no less than 411 persons to the acre.
In 1876 the area of St. James's Parish was
re-arranged by the Registrar-General into two
Sub-Districts, "The Golden Square Sub-District,"