Walks through Islington; comprising an historical and descriptive account of that extensive and important district, both in its ancient and present state: together with some particulars of the most remarkable objects immediately adjacent . , stands that well-known building, the Small-Pox Hospital, instituted, as an inscription in its frontinforms us, in 1746. The structure was not erected,however, until several years later, though the charitywas founded at the time mentioned. Until the year1795, another hospital co-existed with this in Clerk-enwell, devoted to the use of persons actually labou
Walks through Islington; comprising an historical and descriptive account of that extensive and important district, both in its ancient and present state: together with some particulars of the most remarkable objects immediately adjacent . , stands that well-known building, the Small-Pox Hospital, instituted, as an inscription in its frontinforms us, in 1746. The structure was not erected,however, until several years later, though the charitywas founded at the time mentioned. Until the year1795, another hospital co-existed with this in Clerk-enwell, devoted to the use of persons actually labour-ing under the disease, while the building under noticewas confined to the purposes of preparing and inocu-lating patients \ From the boundary-stone at the bottom of MaidenLane, the parochial line has been commonly supposedto proceed south, over the junction of the variousroads at Kings Cross, to the farther side of GraysInn Lane, and there to include part of the groundwhereon formerly stood an immense and well-knownDust-hill2, but which has been some years occupied 1 Vide Hist. Clerkenwell, pp. 301, 302. 2 This eminence, commonly called Smiths Dust-hill, from itsbeing the property of a person of that name, was perhaps the largest. \y©g (CimdJ^g
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