Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mount Pleasant like this:

MOUNT-PLEASANT, a sub-district in the town and district of Liverpool; comprising Rodney and Abercromby wards of Liverpool borough. Pop. in 1851, 41, 997; in 1861, 47, 410. Houses, 6, 901. The Liverpool work-house, the Royal infirmary, the Ashton-street lunatic asylum, the Ashton-street lock hospital, the Hardman-street asylum for the blind, the Hope-street infirmary for children, the Myrtle-street boys' orphan asylum, the Myrtle-street girls' orphan asylum, the Melville-place infants' orphan asylum, the Falkner-st...

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reet girls' Catholic asylum, the Falkner-street female penitentiary, the Oxford-street asylum for the deaf and dumb, and the Roman Catholic training college are here; and, at the census of 1861, had respectively 2, 426, 201, 85, 52, 85, 16, 117, 136, 60, 68, 78, 78, and 146 inmates.

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