Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 78-79. (Budapest, 1976)

TANULMÁNYOK - Mádai Lajos: Településhigiénés és demográfiai viszonyok a fővárosban az 1870-es években (angol nyelven)

\ / ú 17 \ . .Mirberdi ALBES"- j J _ Fig. I. Built in areas in Budapest in 1873 Europe in 1870 Budapest stood on the 17th place the number of its population being more than that of Lisbon, Amsterdam, Milano, Leeds, Dublin, Sheffield, Rome or Palermo. There were only two cities in Europe at that time to exceed one million: London with its population of 3,266,087 and Paris with its 1,842,952 inhabitants. The whole territory of the capital together with the Margarete Island annexed to it from Pest county was in 1870 19,444 hectares, 37% of its present territory. 53.3% of the then territory lay on the right bank on the Danube (Buda and Óbuda), and 46.7% on the left bank (Pest). The majority of the civil population lived in, Pest (74.1%), and only 25.9% lived on the other side. Owing to the difference in the conditions of settlement the density of the Pest side was three times as high as that of the Buda side. After the unification Budapest was divided into ten administrative wards consisting of the following historic districts: In 1870 districts no. VII, VIII and VI were the most populous. Here there lived ten times as many people as in district no. X, Kőbánya, which was at that time the smallest as regards population with its 4,353 inhabitants. One hundred years later its population grew to 72,522 (1970). The density of population was very different in the various wards of Pest. The most populous ones were the City and Józsefváros (Joseph Town) with 319.5 and