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St James's 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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excluding the same, then extends still Southward in a stiaight
line through Nos. 6 and 7 into New Bond Street at a point on
the South front of No. 6, 7ft. 6in. Eastward from the Southwest
quoin ; then continues in the same direction to the
centre of Burlington Gardens, passing at a distance of 8ft. lin.
Westward from the South-west quoin of No. 1, New Bond
Street ; then turns Eastward in the centre of Burlington
Gardens, as far as the West wall of the Burlington Arcade,
then runs Southward along the West face of the Western partywall
of the said Arcade (including within the bounds the
whole of the buildings in the same) to the centre of Piccadilly,
then turns Westward to the centre of St. James's Street, then
Southward down the same to the centre of Park Place, then
Westward along the centre of Park Place to a passage at the
Western end of the same at a distance of 2ft. l^in. from the
North-east angle of No. 7 ; then further Westward in the same
line through the said passage into a garden next the Green
Park ; then turns Southward in a straight line on the fronts of
the houses in St. James's Place next the park, so as to include
the whole of the said houses within the bounds, except the
projecting bows, and continuing in the same Southern direction
in a straight line along the terrace belonging to Earl
Spencer, the line commencing at the North end, 8ft.
Sin. Eastward of the front of the bow to No. 26, St.
James's Place, and cuts through the boundary wall at
Catherine Wheel Yard, at the South end of the said terrace,
20ft. llin. from Western angle of the bow on the South front
of the said house (measuring on the line of wall); the line from
thence runs in a South-west direction down Catherine Wheel
Yard for the length of 113ft. 6in., at which length it is distant
Eastward from the Western garden wall 3ft. 10in., and then in
a South-west by South direction down the said yard for the
length of lift., at which length it is distant Eastward of the
said wall 7ft., and from thence continuing in a straight line till