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Shoreditch 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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and along the Regent's canal to Shepherdess Walk; thence along the centre
thereof, and of Bath Street and Bunhill Row, to the boundary of the City of
London ; and thence along the same to Whitechapel High Street aforesaid."
SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
Court House :—221, OLD STREET, E.C.
Judge :—HIS HONOUR JUDGE HOLROYD.
Registrar:—ERNEST E. WICKHAM, Esq.
High Bailiff:—ROBERT HACKSHAW, Esq.
Hours of Attendance.—The Registrar's Office (16, Charles Square,
Hoxton, N.) is open daily from 10 till 4 ; Saturdays, 10 till 1. Summonses
granted every day ; money paid in daily, paid out Wednesdays, Thursdays, and
Fridays.
Sittings, &c.—The sitting days of the Court are usually Tuesdays and
Thursdays in each week. The days arid hours for sitting are appointed three
months previously, and notice of such days is affixed in the Court House and in
the Registrar's Office. But the days may be altered (notice of alteration being
affixed in like manner), and additional and adjourned courts be held. The
Registrar's Offices are open daily from 10 till 4, except on Christmas Day, Good
Friday, Easter Eve, Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Whit Monday, the first
Monday in August, and public fast, humiliation or thanksgiving days, or any day
appointed for closing the same by the Lord Chancellor ; and except on Saturdays,
when they close at 1; and except also on days when the Court is sitting elsewhere.
A Table of the Court Fees is put up in the Court House and in the Registrar's
Office.
District.—By the original Order in Council of 9th March, 1847, it was
ordered that:—" The District of the Shoreditch County Court of Middlesex "
should "include all within a line drawn from the point where the boundary of the
City of London crosses Finsbury Place, along the eastern boundary of the district
of the Clerkenwell County Court to the southern boundary of the parish of
Tottenham ; thence eastward along the said boundary to the boundary of the
county of Middlesex ; thence southward along the boundary of the said county to
the northern boundary of the parish of Stratford-le-Bow ; thence westward along
the boundary of the said parish until it is crossed by the southern side of the
Eastern Counties Railway ; thence westward along the southern side of the Eastern