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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT.
Along the entire Northern boundary is the parish of Islington; on the
East, parts of Islington and St. Luke's parishes; on the South are St.
Sepulchre's and part of St. Andrew's, Holborn; and on the West, are part of
St. Andrew's and St. Pancras. The Northern boundary line does not
coincide with streets, excepting South-street and Sermon-lane, Pentonville,
the intervening Northern boundary nearly following a line drawn from one to
the other.
The Eastern boundary runs from Sermon-lane down the Liverpool-road,
High-street, Islington, Goswell-road, and Goswell-street, to the corner of
Wilderness-row. The Western boundary includes a portion of the Caledonian-road,
extends beyond North-street, across Battle-bridge to the
Bagnigge-wells-road, down which it extends to Lower Calthorpe-street, a
portion of which it includes, with most of the House of Correction; across
Phoenix-place and Dorrington-stfeet, to the site of the Fleet Ditch, the site
of which it follows to beyond the site of Peter's-lane.
The Southern boundary is very irregular, following, on the East, Wilderness-row;
but it cannot be fully described without reference to a map. It
includes Eagle-court, and the site of Peter-street.
The district is divided, under the Local Management Act, into five wards.
No. 1 includes that part north of the New-road; No. 2, that western part
bounded on the north by the New-road; on the east, by Amwell-street, and
Upper Rosoman-street, and on the south by Exmouth-street, the southeastern
wall of the House of Correction, and Dorrington-street. No. 3 is
bounded on the north by the New- road, on the west by the eastern boundary
of the No. 2 district, and on the south by Spencer-street, and Myddeltonstreet.
The districts Nos. 4 and 5 are separated by Percival-street, and a
line running down St. Johu's-street to Aylesbury-street, through the latter,
across Clerkenwell-green, and through the new street leading to Hattonwall.
The boundaries of the divisions or sub-districts adopted by the Registrar
General are different from the above. Thus, the No. 1 (south or St.
James's district) is bounded on the north by a line running through Bathstreet,
Coppice-row, Bowling-green-lane, Corporation-lane, and Percivalstreet.
No. 2 (the west or Amwell district) is bounded on the north by the
New-road and Penton-place; on the east by Amwell-street and Rosomanstreet;
and on the south by the northern boundary of district No. 1. The
3rd (north or Pentonville district) is bounded on the south by the New-road
and Penton-place. No. 4 (the eastern or Goswell district) is bounded on
the north by the New-road; on the south by Corporation-lane and Percivalstreet;
and on the west by Amwell-street and Rosoman-street.
The area of the district is 380 acres. Its circumference is 3½ miles,
nearly; its greatest length rather more than one mile; and its greatest
breadth rather more than half a mile.
SOIL.
The soil consists of gravel and clay, with chalk some 200 feet below the
surface. The clay soil preponderates in the northern portion of the district,
the gravel in the southern.