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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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The North London Railway Company and the Great Eastern
Railway Company run through the parish ; and the London and
North "Western Railway Company have extensive goods yards
therein.
Tho Regent's Canal Company intersects the parish from west
to east.
The population, as shown by the last census, was 126,560 ; the
number of premises is 15,979, of which 15,156 are inhabited
houses. The number of names in the Rate Book is 18,372.