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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
Lewisham 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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No. 1.
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Comprising the Parish of Limehousc, the Hamlet Rttcliff, and the Parishes of Shadvvell and Wapping.
| OUTLAY. | REVENUE. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d.. | |||||||||||
| By Charges for Paving | 7,911 | 2 | balance brought forward | 4,729 | 16 | 2½ | ||||||||||
| „ Lighting | 2,857 | 11 | Cash of Overseers of parishes in the district upon orders of contribution viz.:— | |||||||||||||
| „ Cleansing | 1,824 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| „ Stone and Materials | 552 | 14 | General purposes | 11,400 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| „ Watering | 479 | 19 | Sewerage ditto | 1,050 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| „ Urinals | 16 | 12 | Ditto to meet orders of Metropolitan Board | 802 | 15 | 3 | ||||||||||
| „ Interest upon charges on rates and repayment of Loan | 2,039 | 0 | 1 | Ditto for main drainage | 3,601 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||
| „ Improvement Account | 12 | 19 | Ditto of Overseers of parishes in the district, excess of rates viz.:— | |||||||||||||
| „ Expenditure on Sewers Account | 8,640 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| „ Establishment charges and sundries | 1,231 | 13 | General purposes | 59 | 16 | 2 | ||||||||||
| „ Compensations | 350 | 9 | Sewerage ditto | 37 | 7 | 2 | ||||||||||
| „ Law charges—loan British Empire Assurance | 18 | 19 | Ditto reinstatements of Pavements | 498 | 15 | 6 | ||||||||||
| ,, Balance in hands of Treasurer | £529 | 9 | 2 | Ditto contributions to Sewers | 135 | 8 | 8 | |||||||||
| Less due to Clerk | £11 | 16 | 6 | Ditto rents, sundries, &c. | 135 | 18 | 0 | |||||||||
| „ Surveyor | 4 | 10 | 11 | Ditto interest on Deposit Account:— | ||||||||||||
| Balance main drainage ac count | 0 | 0 | 4 | General | 38 | 2 | 10 | |||||||||
| Sewers | 15 | 8 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ditto of Pigott Estate | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 6 | 7 | 9 | 513 | 1 | 5 | Ditto of London Dock Company—Paving | 265 | 12 | 8 | |||||||
| Ditto for Stone taken from Shadwell, used in Ratcliff | 42 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| At deposit | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | 2,013 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Vestry of St. George—pavincr Wapping Street | 56 | 12 | 9 | |||||||||||||
| By Cotton, Esq., for Sewer work upon his estate | 58 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Vestry of St. George—Sewer work | 21 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Loan, British Empire Life Assurance | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| £27,978 | 17 | 17 | ||||||||||||||