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Clerkenwell 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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assessments, of a rateable value of £57,706, and
returns twelve members to the Vestry.
Ward No. 4 (St. James') comprises all that
portion of the Parish within a line drawn from
Goswell Road, along the centre of Spencer Street,
Myddelton Street, Exmouth Street, Mount
Pleasant, to the boundary of the Parish, thence
along the line of the Old Fleet Ditch to the new
street opposite Clerkenwell Green, and thence
along Clerkenwell Green (north side of Sessions
House) and Aylesbury Street to St. John Street,
thence up the centre of St. John Street to Percival
Street, along the centre of Percival Street, and up
Goswell Road to Spencer Street. This ward
contains 2,735 assessments, of a rateable value of
£107,368. and returns eighteen members to the
Vestry.
Ward No. 5 (St. John's), comprises all that
portion of the Parish which lies south of the
southern boundary of Ward 4, bounded on the east
by a line drawn along the centre of Goswell Road
from Percival Street to Clerkenwell Road, on the
west by the Old Fleet Ditch, and on the south by
a line drawn from Goswell Road down Clerkenwell
Road, thence irregularly, according to the boundary
to the Parish, to the Old Fleet Ditch. This Ward
contains 1,660 assessments, of a rateable value of
£83,006, and returns fifteen members to the Vestry.
Clerkenwell Detached.—With regard to this
outlying portion of the Parish, the following extract
from Cromwell's History of Clerkenwell will
be of interest, especially to those unacquainted with
its history:—
"There is a small detached portion of the Parish, situate at
Muswell, or Muswell Hill, about five miles and a half from
London, and on the north-western confines of Hornsey. This