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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 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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The following tables will shew the cost of road materials, watering, removal of dust, disposal of street refuse, and scavenging for the past three years:—
| Year ending March, 1880. | Year ending March, 1881 | Year ending March, 1882. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yards. | £ | s. | d. | Yards. | f | s. | d. | Yards. | £ | S. | d. |
| 390½ Kentish Rag Stone | 145 | 8 | 0 | 1042£ Kentish Hag Stone | 363 | 11 | 8 | 208 Kentish Rag Stone | 72 | 16 | 0 |
| 1101 Ballast & Hoggin | 341 | 3 | 0 | 664 Ballast and Hoggin | 177 | 6 | 6 | 212 Kentish Flints | 54 | 15 | 4 |
| Tons. 2367 Granite | 1541 | 8 | 4 | 2305 Granite | 1372 | 16 | 4 | 665 Ballast & Hoggin | 163 | 6 | 0 |
| 1933 Broken Granite | 1108 | 9 | 5 | ||||||||
| £2027 | 10 | 4 | £1913 | 14 | 6 | 11399 | 6 | 9 | |||
The cost of watering the roads has been as follows:—
| 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f, | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Horses & drivers | 339 | 11 | 10 | Horses & drivers | 623 | 15 | 0 | Wages of drivers | 268 | 12 | 0 |
| East London' Water Co. for 3,541,000 gls. of water | 170 | 11 | 9 | East London Water Co. for 6,591,000 gls. of water | 284 | 19 | 3 | Horse Hire | 63 | 3 | 6 |
| Keep of Vestry Horses = 1267 working days | 410 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||
| East London Water Co. for 7,425,000 gls. of water | 316 | 9 | |||||||||
| £510 | 3 | 7 | £2908 | 14 | 3 | £ | 1058 | 9 | 5 | ||
| 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Wages of Dustmen | 510 | 8 | 11 | Wages of Dustmen | 578 | 17 | 8 | Wages of Dustmen | 674 | 18 | 6 |
| Keep of horses =2632 working days | 888 | 6 | 0 | Keep of horses, =2820 working days | 916 | 10 | 0 | Keep of horses =3639 work- ing days | 1178 | 17 | 8 |
| £1398 | 14 | 11 | Horse - hire for Dusting | 0 | 14 | 0 | Horse-hire for dusting | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| By sale of Dus1 | 174 | 2 | 0 | £1490 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| By sale of Dust | 110 | 13 | 0 | ||||||||
| £l 224 | 12 | 11 | £1385 | 8 | 8 | £1855 | 18 | 2 | |||