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Finsbury 1907
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops
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A. -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 96,732, and
there are 8,500 inhabited houses. The area is 589 acres. The
gross assessable value is £1,284,409, and the rateable value
1,037,302 7s. 6d. The Borough is bounded on 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 1907 in the Borough of Finsbury was 96,732, comprised as follows :—
| North Clerkenwell | 33.395 |
| South Clerkenwell | 27,340 |
| Finsbury (St. Luke) | 34.431 |
| St. Sepulchre | 1,566 |
| 96,732 |
The sub-registration district of Glasshouse Yard (pop. 740) is
now incorporated in the sub-registration district of Finsbury,
making Finsbury (St. Luke) 34,431. 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.