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VITAL STATISTICS.
The Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury was created in November,
1900, under the London Local Government Act, 1899. It was
formed by amalgamation of the following constituent parts,
namely:—The Parish of the Vestry of Clerkenwell, the Parish of
the Vestry of St. Luke, Middlesex, the Liberty of Glasshouse
Yard, the Liberty of the Charterhouse, and the Parish of St.
Sepulchre Without.
The population of the Borough is 100,487, and there are 8,500
inhabited houses. The area is 589 acres. The rateable value is
£970,264, and the gross assessable value £1,189,793. The Borough
is bounded upon the north by the Boroughs of Islington and
Shoreditch; on the east by the Borough of Shoreditch; on the
south by the City of London ; and on the west by the Boroughs of
Holborn and St. Pancras.

The sub-registration district of Glasshouse Yard (pop. 740) is now
incorporated in the sub-registration district of Pinsbury, making
Pinsbury (St. Luke) 35,769. At the census of 1901 the population
was 101,463, in 1891 it was 110,907, and in 1861 it was at its
maximum of 129,031. Hence it will be seen that the district is one
of those central metropolitan areas, forming an inner zone immediately
around the City of London, which has shown during the last
40 years a steady decline of population. This decline was most
marked between 1871 and 1881, and between 1891 and 1901.