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Shoreditch 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
BOUNDARIES OF THE WARDS.
Adopted under the Metropolis Local Management Act.
No. 1.—MOORFIELDS WARD.
All that part of the Parish lying South of a line commencing at
the Bethnal Green Boundary in Bethnal Green Road (Church Street);
and continuing through Church Street, New Inn Yard, and Leonard
Street to the St Luke's Boundary.
No. 2.—CHURCH WARD.
North of the line above described. The Eastern Boundary commences
at the corner of Boundary Street, Bethnal Green Road, and
continues by Boundary Street to Austin Street, Hackney Road, thence
to Kingsland Road, and by that road to Mary Street; crosses Hoxton
Street to Great James Street, thence by St. John's Road and Pitfield
Street to Old Street Road, thence westward through Old Street Road,
and thence by the boundary of St. Luke's to Leonard Street.
No. 3.—HOXTON WARD.
West and North of the Boundary of Church Ward. The Northern
Boundary of this ward commences at the St. John's Road end of
Nicholas Street, through that street to the New North Road, Murray
Street, Shepherdess Walk and Edward Street to the St. Luke's
Boundary, and thence by that boundary, near the City Road, until it
intersects the Church Ward Boundary in Old Street Road.
No. 4.—WENLOCK WARD.
North and West of the Hoxton Boundary. The Eastern Boundary
commences at the New North Road, corner of Nicholas Street,