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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 estimated at 98,207, and there are
8,500 inhabited houses. The area is 589 acres. The gross assessable
value is £1,234,914, and the rateable value £1,007,532. 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.
Population.—The estimated population to the middle of 1905
in the Borough of Finsbury was 98,207, comprised as follows:—
North Clerkenwell 33,904
South Clerkenwell 27,756
Finsbury (St. Luke) 34,957
St. Sepulchre 1,590
98,207
The sub-registration district of Glasshouse Yard (pop. 740) is
now incorporated in the sub-registration district of Finsbury,
making Finsbury (St. Luke) 34,957. 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.
The numbers of the population, of each sex and at various ages
(at the Census, 1901), were as follows:—