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Mile End 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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Abstract of General Purposes Account.

For the year ending25th March,1874.

RECEIPTS.£s.d.EXPENDITURE.£8.d.
Amount received on Calls made upon Overseers1470000Cleansing and Scavenging203882
Removal of Dust1577100
Making-up and repairing roads and footpaths,including materials and incidental expenses72681111
Amount received from Overseers, being the amount collected by them to the 25th March last, in excess of the amount of the precepts issued to them by the Vestry355178On account of Paving Works, under contract viz :—
Roadway of Commercial Road6815164
,, „ Mile End Road725000
Amount received of the Metropolitan Board of Works on account of the loan of £25000, on security of the Rates1800006Footpath of „ „106294
Water for Roads30710
Water carts, and repairs to water carts, hydrants, &c.12242
Rent of Wharf10000
Amount received from the Regent's Canal Company, for one year's maintenance of Roads over the Bridge in the Mile End Road2500
Interest on debt transferred from Commercial Road Trustees10886
Interest on balance of Loan of £4000 from the Star Life Assurance Society, for the Vestry Hall6730
Amounts received from various persons for Paving Works in various Streets, as under:—
Thirteenth Instalment of the principal of that Loan20000
Interest on balance of Loan of £1600 from the Star Life Assurance Society for White Horse Lane improvement5464
Bradwell Street281111
Essex Street16120
Buckeridge Street1706Sixth Instalment of the principal of that Loan10000
Lawton Road571010Interest on £18000 (portion of loan of £25000) from the Metropolitan Board of Works, for paving Mile End and Commercial Roads343165
Longnor Road431710
Ashcroft Road54144
Carried forward£3329951Carried forward£27415152

SPECIAL LIABILITIES
Remaining proportion of Labilities of the Trustees of the Commercial Road, transferred to the VestrY
2205
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Balance of amount borrowed for expenses incurred in purchaseof land for, and erection of, Vestry
Hall and offices and other incidental cxponses, from the Star Life Assurance Society, on the
9th Dec., 1800, upon Mortgage of the General Rates
1400
0
0
Balance of amount borrowed towards the cost of widening the North end of White Horse
Lane, from the Star Life Assurance Society, on the 12th day of March, 1868, upon Mortgage
of the General Rates
1000
0
0
Amount borrowed from the Metropolitan Board of Works, upon Mortgages of the whole of
the Rates, lor the purpose of paving the Mile End and Commercial Roads (being part of
£25,000 agreed to be advanced)
18000
0
0
£222605
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