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. Giles District]
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Street, and down the middle of tliat thoroughfare, across
Gower Street and Torrington Place to where it joined the
boundary of the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbnry; thence
it was taken southward to the middle of Marchmont Street,
down the middle of that thoroughfare to the middle of
Great Coram Street, thence eastwards to the middle of
Kenton Street, thence southwards down the middle of
Kenton Street to the middle of Bernard Street, thence
along the middle of Bernard Street to that part of Herbrand
Street, formerly Colonnade Mews, which lies in the
rear of the Hotel Russell; along the middle of Herbrand
Street, across Guilford Street to the boundary of the
Parish in Bolton Mews. This decision involved the transfer
of a considerable quantity of rateable property from the
St. Giles District to St. Pancras. It was agreed that there
should be transferred from the Borough of St. Pancras to
the Borough of Holborn all that part of the Parish lying
to the south of the middle of Guilford Street as far as
Henry Street, thence along the middle of Henry Street to
the middle of Doughty Mews.
At an Inquiry held by J. W. Thompson, Esq., an
Assistant Commissioner, at the St. Pancras Vestry Hall,
on the 30th November, an agreed representation to this
effect was supported by the Board and the Yestry of
St. Pancras, and was accepted by the Commissioner.
In the other cases the question of adjustment was not
so satisfactorily dealt with.
At an Inquiry held before T. R. Colquhoun Dill, Esq.,
at the Westminster Town Hall, on the 30th November,
the question of the adjustment of boundaries of the various
Parishes with the Borough of Westminster was discussed.
After several days' inquiry the boundaries between the
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