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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

Mile End 1870

The fourteenth annual report of the Vestry of the Hamlet Mile End Old Town in the county of Middlesex

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Table: Abstract of Sewers Account.For the year ending 25th March, 1870.

Abstract of Sewers Account.For the year ending 25th March, 1870.

RECEIPTS.£S.d.EXPENDITURE.£S.d.
Amount received from Overseers on account of Calls, including Calls of the Metropolitan Board of Works, for the Main Drainage Rate, and for the ordinary expenses of that Board648185Construction of Sewers863187
Cleansing same12590½
Public conveniences10123
Amount received from Overseers, being the amount collected by them up to the 25th March, 1869, in excess of the amount of the Precepts issued to them for Sewers299199Metropolitan Board of Works, for Main Drainage Rate238840
Metropolitan Board of Works, for their ordinary expenses136770
The like for Main Drainage61082Disinfectants for gullies, &c.5486
Amount receivecd From various persons for expenses incurred in drainage works or otherwise relating to such works13150Salaries (proportion charged to Sewers Account)55000
Amount received from North Metropolitan Tramways, being for construction of side entrances to sewer in Mile End Road21000Petty Cash Disbursements, Clerk's and Surveyor's department (proportion charged to Sewers Account)121110½
Amount of Interest on Drawing Account at London and Westminster Bank8150Balance21991111
Amount received from various persons for draining into Sewers, after deducting amounts returned or to be returned56160£768124
£768124Balance in hand at Audit, 1869£228104¾
Add excess of receipts over expenditure21991111
Balance to credit of Sewers Account£242823¾