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 Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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Nos. 1 and 30 in Sidney Street), thence along
Spencer Street, Myddelton Street, Rosoman Street,
and Amwell Street, to the north-west corner of
Claremont Square. This Ward contains 1,198
assessments, of a rateable value of £58,139, and
a population of 8,211, 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 2,915 assessments, of a rateable value of
£111,357, and a population of 19,920, 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 of the Parish, to the Old Fleet Ditch.
This Ward contains 1,573 assessments, of a rateable
value of £93,336, and a population of 10,096, and
returns fifteen members to the Vestry.