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exceptions, viz.—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 'Liberty' contained in 1891
69 inhabited houses, occupied by 779 persons,
and in 1896 only 733 persons, according to the
Imperial Census.
All deaths in Glasshouse Yard are included
by the Registrar-General as occurring in the
City, but the Corporation is only responsible for
the sanitary condition of the area comprised in
the "municipal" City of London, from which
this Yard, with the exceptions above mentioned,
is excluded.
* Vide Census of England and Wales, 1891. The Middle Temple has
since been constituted a separate Sanitary Authority,
† The ground floors only are in the City.
†† A new delimitation of this portion of the City is now under
consideration.