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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The present Bounds of the Parish may be described in modem
language as commencing at a house, formerly No. 125, 1 all
Mall, including the site of the said house, which was the last
house on the South side of the East end of Pall Mall
and had an iron balcony, as described in the Act of
Parliament 1st James II., cap. 22. This house was pulled
down in the year 1831, together with the house adjoining
eastward, No. 13, Cockspur Street (formerly called Powell's
Buildings), and rebuilt as one house by Mr. Sharpus, a china
dealer. The Boundary line begins at a point on the North
front of the said house 9ft. 6in. Eastward from the centre of
the western party wall, or 22ft. Westward from the obtuse
angle of Cockspur Street, and extends from thence in a Northeastern
direction to the middle of the Hay market; then
Northward up the centre of the Haymarket; then Eastward to
the north of the centre of Coventry Street; then Northward
up the centre of Wardour Street to the centre of
Oxford Street; then runs Westward along the centre of
Oxford Street as far as a house, numbered 255 (formerly 325),
at the Eastern corner of Swallow Passage; then turns Southward
and runs through the said house, 9ft. 7in. Eastward from
the North-west brick-quoin of the said dwelling-house, and continues
Southward in the same direction through No. 7,
Swallow Place, 6ft. Sin. Eastward of the East side of the
Passage on the South front of the said house, to the centre of
Swallow Place; then turns in a South-eastern direction to the
West front of the "Princess Charlotte" public-house, 19ft.
Northward from the South-west quoin, and runs through the
same to a point on the South front of 4ft. 8in. Eastward from
the said quoin, and continues in the same diagonal direction
across Princes Street to the front of No. 22, 32ft. lOin. Westward
from line of house in Regent Street, and further in the
same line to the Northern wall of Hanover Chapel, to a point
22ft. 7in. Westward from the face of the pilaster of the said