Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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Street, including the said West Side thereof, and proceeding from hence to
the South End of the Place called Sohoe, and passing on the West Side of
the said Street or Place called Sohoe, including the said West Side thereof,
to a House being the Sign of the Talbot, on the North-East Corner of a
Place called Currance-his-Corner, including the said House, and from thence
taking in the South Side of the Roadway called Tyburn Road, Westward
to a House being the Sign of the Plough at the North-West Corner of a
Lane called Marybone Lane, including the said House, and from thence
proceeding Southward on the East Side of the said Lane to the
North - East Corner of a little Field called Crabtree Field, comprehending
the same, and the Ground from thence Westward to the NorthWest
Corner of a Field called or known by the name of the Ten Acres Field,
in the Tenure and Occupation of Richard, Earl of Burlington, his Assignee
or Assigns, including the said Field, and the Highway between the same
and the Garden Wall of the said Earl of Burlington to the North-West
Corner of the said Garden Wall, including the said Garden and the
Mansion House of the said Earl called Burlington House, fronting the
Street called Portugal Street, with all the Outhouses, Stables, Yards, and
Buildings thereof and thereunto appertaining, and crossing from the SouthWest
Corner of the Wall of the said House in the said Portugal Street to
the middle Denter thereof, excluding all the North Side of the said Street
Westward from the Soufh-West Corner of the said Wall, and proceeding
from the said middle Denter Westward on the South Side of the said
Portugal Street to Saint James's Street, passing down the middle part or
Denter thereof towards Saint James's House to the middle Channel on the
South Side of a new Street called Park Place, comprehending all the East
Side of Saint James's Street to Saint James's House, and all the West Side
thereof, from the said middle Channel downwards as far as the same
extends, and including the South Side of the said Park Place to the Garden
of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, comprehending the same, together with
Cleveland House, and all the Yards, Stables, Outhouses, and Buildings
thereunto appertaining, and also the Street which leads from the outward
Gate of the said House fronting part of Saint James's House to the Gate of
the said House, and from thence to the said Pall Mall Street, comprehending
all the Houses, Buildings, and Yards, backwards to the Wall which
incloses that part of Saint James's Park which hath been lately made into
a Garden, extending to a House inhabited by Anthony Yerreo, Painter,
lately in the Occupation of one Leonard Girle, Gardener, and from thence
to the House and Garden of Thomas, Earl of Sussex, including the same,
together with the South Side of a little Street called Warwick Street to an
Inn there, being the Sign of the White Hart, excluding the said White
Hart Inn.