[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERH1THE, SURREY. account in abstract. Shewing the Receipts and Expenditure f o r One Year ending 25th March, 1872, under the “ Metropolis Local Management Act ” 18 and 19 Victoria, cap 120.

Cash Balance at commencement of Year.						RECEIPTS DURING THE YEAR.															PAYMENTS DURING THE YEAR.																					Cash Balance on the 25th March, 1872.
Cash Balance at commencement of Year.						RECEIPTS DURING THE YEAR.															Assessment by Metropolitan Board.			Works.			Establishment.			Loans, &c.			Watering.			Lighting			Total.			In Credit			In Debit
In Credit.			In Debit.			Rates, &c.			Contributions, &c.			Loans, &c.			Incidentals.			Total.			Assessment by Metropolitan Board.			Works.			Establishment.			Loans, &c.			Watering.			Lighting			Total.			In Credit			In Debit
£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£,	s,	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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GENERAL ABSTRACT OP WORKS, Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c. , for Special and General Works, Year ending 25th March, 1872.

Paving and General Purposes Rate.		Paving.						Lighting.			Watering.			Cleansing and Repairing Roads and Footpaths.			Improving.			Removing Dust.			Total.
Paving and General Purposes Rate.		Footwav.			Carriageway.			Lighting.			Watering.			Cleansing and Repairing Roads and Footpaths.			Improving.			Removing Dust.			Total.
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., for Special and General Work,Year ending 25th March 1872.

Lighting Rate.		Lighting.			Contributions			Commission.															Total.
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	&	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS . Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., for Special and General Works, Year ending 25th March, 1872.

CONSTRUCTION																				Repair and Alterations to Sewers, Gu leys, &c,			Cleansing, including Flushing, Casting, Lifting, Cartage, and Repairs, caused thereby.			Incidental Works.			Improvement Works.			TOTAL COST.
BRICK BE WEES. Size.	COST.	PIPE SEWERS. STONE-WARE. Size,							COST.			Opening to Sewers:					COST.
BRICK BE WEES. Size.		PIPE SEWERS. STONE-WARE. Size,										Side Entrance.	Air & Flushing Shifts.	Gullies.	Drain Months.	Flays
			18 in.	15 in,	12 in.	9 in	6 in.	4 in.				Side Entrance.	Air & Flushing Shifts.	Gullies.	Drain Months.	Flays
			feet.	feet.	feet.	feet.	feet.	feet.	£	s.	d.						£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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Contracts for the performance of General Works and Supply of Materials. Subsisting at the commencement of, or entered into, during the year ending 25th March, 1872.

Rate, &c.,	Date of Contract.	Mame of Party with whom Contract was made.	Nature of Works to be Performed, and Materials to be Supplied.	Observations.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITIIE, SURREY. Statement and Account of all Arrears of Rates and other Monies owing to, and of all Mortgages, Debts, and Liabilities, owing by the Vestry on the 25th March, 1872.

Rate, &c.	Moneys Owing to the Vestry.															Debts and Liabilities owing by the Vestry.													Total.
Rate, &c.	Cash Balance.			Uncollected Rates, &c.			Contributions to be Received.			Amount of Rates at Bank to credit of the Overseers.			Total.			Cash Balance.		Assessment by Metropolitan Board.			Loans, Mortgages, &c.			Estimated value of Compensation Annuities Granted.	Special Contract outstanding	Tradesmen's Bills& other obligations not under Special Contracts.			Total.

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Summary Statement, One Year, Ending March 26th, 1872, Paving and General Purposes Account.

	£	s	d.		£	s.	d.

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Sewers Account, One Year ending 25th March, 1872.

	£	s.	d.					£	s.	d.

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Sewers Works The following lengths of pipe, sewer, and drain have been laid, viz:—

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The following is a statement of applications made to the Vestry to drain houses and premises, and the results consequent thereon.

Number of Notices received.	No. of houses permanently drained into covered Sewers.	No. of New houses temporarily drained into Cesspools.	Buildings and premises other than houses drained.	House Drains Cleared.	Tota 1 Number of Houses and Buildings inspected for drainage.
49	64	13	8	5	80

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The following applications for the erection of new houses and buildings have also been received and plans checked and approved.

Number of Notices.	Number of Houses.	Additions to Houses.	Warehouses and other Buildings.	Churches, Chapels, Schools, and additions to same.	Total number of new Buildings.

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The following materials have been used in repairing the Roads during the year ended 25th March, 1872, viz.:—

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Charity Estates, &c. The accounts of Messrs. Henry Ives and Thomas William Clarke, the Churchwardens for the year 1871-72 have been audited, and the following is a copv of the Charities Account:—

	£	S.	d.

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By Cash paid for Bread,:—

	£	s.	d.	£	S.	d.

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The table below will show the mortality arising from some of the most important epidemic diseases during the last six years.

Desease.	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	Deaths total.

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and thirty-nine births were recorded, the deficency will therefore be thirty-six; but the deaths have also diminished to the number of forty, and the excess of births over deaths will amount to three hundred and seventy-six. Births were registered as follows:—

	Births.

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Deaths. In the four quarters of the year there was registered the following number of deaths, and in the mortality tables annexed the name of the disease is given.

	Deaths.

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This does not accurately represent the number of deaths, inasmuch as Inquests were held on the bodies of sixteen persons who were not inhabitants of this Parish, and in the Infirmary attached to the Union, twenty-three persons died, who were sent from Bermondsey, six from St. Olave's, and two from St. John's Parish, making altogether forty-seven non-residents; by abstracting this number the deaths due to this Parish will be reduced to five hundred and twenty-seven, and compared with the two previous years the rate of mortality will be as follows:—

	No. of Deaths.	Corrected Mortality.	Per Thousand.

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In respect of age an analysis of the five hundred and seventy-four deaths will show that it included two hundred and ninety-six Males, and two hundred and seventy eight Females:—

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TABLE OP THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE, First Quarter, from April 1st, 1871, to June 30th 1871.

Diseases.	Under 2 years of age.	2 to 5	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE, Second Quarter, from July 1st, 1871, to September 30th 1871.

Diseases.	Under 2 years of age.	2 to 5	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total.

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE, Fourth Quarter, from January 1st, 1872, to March 30th 1872.

Diseasbs.	Under 2 years of age.	2 to 5	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40to30	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERH1THE, SURREY. account in abstract. Shewing the Receipts and Expenditure f o r One Year ending 25th March, 1872, under the “ Metropolis Local Management Act ” 18 and 19 Victoria, cap 120.

GENERAL ABSTRACT OP WORKS, Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &amp;c. , for Special and General Works, Year ending 25th March, 1872.

GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &amp;c., for Special and General Work,Year ending 25th March 1872.

GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS . Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &amp;c., for Special and General Works, Year ending 25th March, 1872.

Contracts for the performance of General Works and Supply of Materials. Subsisting at the commencement of, or entered into, during the year ending 25th March, 1872.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITIIE, SURREY. Statement and Account of all Arrears of Rates and other Monies owing to, and of all Mortgages, Debts, and Liabilities, owing by the Vestry on the 25th March, 1872.

Summary Statement, One Year, Ending March 26th, 1872, Paving and General Purposes Account.

Sewers Account, One Year ending 25th March, 1872.

Sewers Works The following lengths of pipe, sewer, and drain have been laid, viz:—

The following is a statement of applications made to the Vestry to drain houses and premises, and the results consequent thereon.

The following applications for the erection of new houses and buildings have also been received and plans checked and approved.

The following materials have been used in repairing the Roads during the year ended 25th March, 1872, viz.:—

Charity Estates, &amp;c. The accounts of Messrs. Henry Ives and Thomas William Clarke, the Churchwardens for the year 1871-72 have been audited, and the following is a copv of the Charities Account:—

By Cash paid for Bread,:—

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The table below will show the mortality arising from some of the most important epidemic diseases during the last six years.

and thirty-nine births were recorded, the deficency will therefore be thirty-six; but the deaths have also diminished to the number of forty, and the excess of births over deaths will amount to three hundred and seventy-six. Births were registered as follows:—

Deaths. In the four quarters of the year there was registered the following number of deaths, and in the mortality tables annexed the name of the disease is given.

In respect of age an analysis of the five hundred and seventy-four deaths will show that it included two hundred and ninety-six Males, and two hundred and seventy eight Females:—

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TABLE OP THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE, First Quarter, from April 1st, 1871, to June 30th 1871.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE, Second Quarter, from July 1st, 1871, to September 30th 1871.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE, Fourth Quarter, from January 1st, 1872, to March 30th 1872.

GENERAL ABSTRACT OP WORKS, Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c. , for Special and General Works, Year ending 25th March, 1872.

GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., for Special and General Work,Year ending 25th March 1872.

GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS . Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., for Special and General Works, Year ending 25th March, 1872.

Charity Estates, &c. The accounts of Messrs. Henry Ives and Thomas William Clarke, the Churchwardens for the year 1871-72 have been audited, and the following is a copv of the Charities Account:—