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Shoreditch 1892

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

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Counties Railway till it crosses Brick Lane ; thence along the middle of Brick
Lane, Phoenix Street, Wheeler Street, and White Lion Street to Norton Folgate;
thence along the middle of Norton Folgate to the boundary of the City of Loudon;
thence westward along the boundary of the City of London to the point first
described."—But by the subsequent Order in Council of 25th June, 1851, certain
portions of the above were taken from the district of the Shoreditch County Court,
and.added to the districts of the Bow County Court and the Whitechapel County
Court; and the following portions of the Clerkenwell County Court District (as
established by the Order in Council of 1847) were taken therefrom, and added to
the district of the Shoreditch County Court, viz. :—" So much of the district of the
Clerkenwell County Court of Middlesex as is included within a line drawn from
the point where the south boundary of the district of the said Court crosses
Whitecross Street, along the middle of Whitecross Street to Old Street; thence
along the middle of Old Street to Bath Street; thence along the middle of Bath
Street to the City Road ; thence across the City Road to Shepherdess Walk ; thence
along the middle of Shepherdess Walk, and the road opposite Yaughau Terrace,
Ashley Crescent, and Ashley Terrace, to the Regent's Canal; thence along the
middle of the Regent's Canal to the New North Road; thence along the eastern
and southern boundary of the distiict of the said Court, to the point where the said
southern boundary crosses Whitecross Street as first described ; " and "so much of
the district of the said Court as is included within a line drawn from the point
where the Regent's Canal is crossed by a bridge called the Rosemary Branch
Bridge, leading to Southgate Road in the parish of St. John's, Hackney ; along
the middle of the Southgate Road to Ball's Pond Road; thence along the middle
of Ball's Pond Road and Paul's Road to the New River, until it is crossed by the
Green Lanes Turnpike Road, south of Paradise Place in such Road ; thence along
the middle of Green Lanes Turnpike Road to the northern boundary of the district
of the said Court; thence eastward along the said boundary to the Kingsland
Road ; thence along the middle of the Kingsland Road to the Regent's Canal;
thence westward alona: the Regent's Canal to the point where the said Rosemary
Branch Bridge crosses the said canal, as first described." By a further Order iu
Council, dated 25th November, 1853, the parish of St. Mary, Stoke Newiugton,
was taken from the district of this Court and added to the district of the Edmonton
County Court. And by a further Order in Council, dated 7th January, 1865,
" So much of the parish of Hornsey as is detached from that parish by the
interposition of any portion of the parish of Stoke Newington," was also added to
the district of the Edmonton County Court.