Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1899.

  • Strand (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF Day Population.—For many years the Strand District has been becoming less a residential district and more a business one, the number of persons found sleeping in it does not therefore, represent the true population of the District. In the City o London, a day census has been taken and by bringing these into relation with the number of persons sleeping in the City, and the number of bouses used only by day, a factor is obtained, which on being applied to the conditions existing in the Strand District, gives 83,712 as the number of persons actively employed in the District during the day. This of course, does not take cognizance of the large number of persons passing through the District, or who frequent the Law Courts, Somerset House, Covent Garden Market, the theatres and music halls. Census of 1901.—It is a matter of importance to centrally situated districts, that at the next census, the Imperial authorities should take the number of persons actively employed in the various districts. In view of the Census Bill having to be introduced into Parliament in 1900, the Board, on the recommendation of the Health Committee, passed the following resolutions on the subject:— (a) That the Census Act of 1900 should provide for an Intermediary Census in 1906. (b) That the Census be not taken on Easter or Whit- Sunday. (c) That the Census Act should be passed as early as possible, and certainly not later than Easter, 1900, in order that there may be time for proper arrangements to be made. (d) That the Census Returns should not be primarily based on Poor Law areas, but on the areas of Municipal and Sanitary Authorities; and that the age and occupation of the inhabitants of every sanitary area, and sub districts of the larger areas, be separately tabulated and published.