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GENERAL.
Shoreditch is a district of irregular shape of which the two longest diagonals are
approximately one and a half miles. Its boundaries are as follow Hackney,
N. & N.E.; Bethnal Green, E.; Stepney, S.E.; City, S.; Finsbury, W.; Islington,
N. & N.W. The average height of the Borough above sea level is 60 feet.
The subsoil of the Borough is London clay with many pockets of gravel. Some
areas are covered to a depth of three feet with a good quality sandy gravel on this
subsoil.
Refuse material, probably from the City and other adjacent areas, which has
been deposited on this subsoil during the last 100 years or more, now has a depth of
approximately five feet.
The Meteorological Table for London, deduced from observations at Greenwich
under the superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, issued by the Registrar-General
for 1930, shows a rainfall for the year of 697 millimetres. This figure is 101 millimetres
above the average for the thirty-five years, 1881-1915.
HOSPITALS.
Within the Borough—
St. Leonard's Hospital, Hoxton Street, N. 1, General, London
County Council, formerly Shoreditch Guardians 556 beds.
Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, E.C. 1 85 beds.
Shoreditch Model Welfare Centre, 210, Kingsland Road, E. 2
10 cots for babies.
Medical Mission of the Good Shepherd, 41-49, Harman Street, N. 1.
10 cots for babies and young children.
Shoreditch Tuberculosis Dispensary, 145, Great Cambridge
Street, E. 2 No beds.
Shoreditch Municipal Dental Hospital, 164, Kingsland Road, E.2 No beds.
Welfare Centres, see page 100, M. & C.W. Section of this report.
City of London & East London Dispensary, Wilson Street, E.C. 2 No beds.
London County Council School Treatment Centre, Hoxton House,
Hoxton Street, N. 1 No beds.
Near the Boundary of the Borough—
General Hospitals—
Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E. 8 150 beds.
Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, N. 7 220 beds.
German Hospital, Ritson Road, Dalston, E. 8 160 beds.
London Hospital, Mile End, E. 1 839 beds.
University College Hospital, Gower Street, W.C. 1 540 beds.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, E.C. 1 692 beds.
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, W.C. 1 268 beds.