London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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registration purposes into the following five Sub-Districts, viz.:—
| 1. St. Botolph, including 2 parishes. |
| 2. Cripplegate „ 2 „ |
| 3. St. Sepulchre „ 11 „ |
| 4. Allhallows Barking ,, 85 „ |
| 5. Broad Street „ 13 „ |
| Total 113 parishes. |
The City District or Union is co-extensive
with the municipal City of London, within
and without the walls, with the following
exceptions: The municipal City includes the
Middle Temple*, part of Staple Inn [four houses],
part of Furnival's Inn [five houses], and a part of
the Parish of Whitechapel [five houses], which
for Poor Law and Registration purposes are
comprised respectively in the Strand, Holborn and
Whitechapel Districts, while the Liberty of Glasshouse
Yard, with the exception of a few houses
occupied by sixty-five persons, although not
forming part of the municipal City, is included in
the Parish of St. Botolph Without, Aldersgate, in
the London City Registration District. This
* Vide Census of England and Wales, 1891. The Middle Temple has
since been constituted a separate Sanitary Authority.