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Lewisham 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TO THE
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE LIMEHOUSE
DISTRICT.
Department op Works,
Offices, White Hor.se Street,
Commercial Road, E.
Gentlemen,
I bog to submit to you my Report upon the works executed in
the District from Lady-day, 1687, to Lady-day, 1888.
SEWERS.
New Hewers have been constructed of the following lengths
and sizes, vis :—
SlIADWELL.—439 feet run of 12-in. pipe sewer constructed in
Dellow Street, partly in this Dintrict and partly in St. George-in-theLust.
The cost will be pai-l jointly in equal proportions.
Wapping.—60 feet run of 9-in. pipe sewer have been
constructed in Chamber Square in place of the old and defective
brick sewer.
125 feet run of 12-in. pipe sewer in Stepney Causeway, Ratcliff,
have been relaid.
The following sewers have bceu cleansed by the Contractor ot
the Board, viz :—
No. 14 (Continued).
RE
TURN OF MONIES- ???SEI) ON LOAN AT INTEREST (Con
tinued).
| No. | Date of Mortgage. | Amount. | Rate of Intercut. | Secured on. | or what purpose fel Borrowed. | From whom Borrowed. | For what Term. | Repayments. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brought forward.. | £37,800 | Brought Forward | £35,710 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 15 | 1872, June 22 | £7,260 | £3 17/6 | General Rates. | For Improvements in Limehouse. | Metropolitan Board of Works. | Fiftv-seven years, to be repaid aa follows: l'150onl»t Oct.. 1871; £148 on 1st Oct. in 60 succeeding Years, (now reduced to .£10 per year). | £6,749 | 0 | 0 |
| (By Contribution from Metropolitan Board.} | ||||||||||
| £81 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 16 | 1872, July 24 | £18,000 | £4 10/ | Ditto. | For Paving the Commercial Road, ho East India Dock Road, and the Weat India Dock Road. | London Life Association. | Twenty years, payable by twenty equal annual instalments. | £13,600 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 1872, August 10 | £1,000 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | For Improvement* in Sun Tavern Gap, Shadwell. | Metropolitan Board o( Works. | Fiftv-»even years, to be repaid aa follows : £50 on 1 st Oct.. Ih79; £79 on 1st Oct. in 50 succeeding Years. | The whole. | ||
| £4.0U0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| (By Contribution from Metropolitan Board.) | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1873, January 20 | £2/)00 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | Ditto. | Ditto. | Fiftv-seven years, to be repaid aa follows : £50 on 1st Oct., 1879; £39 on 1st Oct. in 60 sucoeeding Years. | The whole. | ||
| £2,<»00 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| (By Contribution from Metropolitan Board.) | ||||||||||
| 19 | 1873, January 20 | £6,000 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | Ditto. | Ditto. | Fiftr-atvto years, to be repaid as follows : £120 on lst Oct., 1H73; £106 on 1st Oct. in 66 succeeding Years. | £1,590 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 1873, January 20 | £7,260 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | For Improvement* in Liu.ehouse. | Ditto. | Fiftv-seven years, to be repaid as follows: £138 on 1st Oct. 1873; £127 on lst Oct. in 56 succeeding Years. | £1,916 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | 1874, October 1 | £2,816 101 | £3 18/6 | Ditto. | For Improvements in W apping Wall, Shadwell. | Ditto. | Fifty-five years, to be repflid as follows: £62 10s. on 1st Oct..1875; £51 ou 1st Oct. in 54 succeeding Years. | £674 | 10 | 0 |
| Carriedforward | £85,116 10 | Carr'ud foncard | £66,250 | 10 | 0 | |||||