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Shoreditch 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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GENERAL RATE ACCOUNTS (Continued ), FROM 5 th March , 1890, to 25 th March , 1891.
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||||||||||||||
| To RECEIPTS- Amount brought forward | £59,389 | 16 | 3 | By PAYMENTS- | £1,943 | 10 | 2 | 36,965 | 12 | 1 | |||||||||
| HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT, (continued.) | HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT, (continued.) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Highway Works Account. Repairs of Roads and Footpaths. | Highway Works Account. Wages— | ||||||||||||||||||
| East London Water Works Co. | 60 | 13 | 2 | Pavement Labour | 1,302 | 3 | 7½ | ||||||||||||
| Gas Light & Coke Co. | 168 | 18 | 10 | Highways do | 560 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| H.M. Postal Telegraph Depart- ment | 4 | 9 | 1 | Breaking Stones 83 19 6 Workmen's Excursion 10 12 0 | |||||||||||||||
| New River (Waterworks) Co. | 408 | 16 | 3 | 1957 | 1 | 4½ | |||||||||||||
| 642 | 17 | 4 | Vestry of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex— | ||||||||||||||||
| Special Works and other Paving Repairs executed for owners of property | 119 | 6 | 1 | proportion of cost of Paving repairs, Victoria Place | 9 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Watching Expenses | 0 | 13 | 10 | Maintenance of Wood Pavement, Goldsmith Row | 83 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Cutting Coal-plate openings | 5 | 19 | 0 | . Team Labour and Carman's Work | 455 | 5 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Cartage Work | 0 | 5 | 0 | Masons' and Paviors' Work | 307 | 7 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Owners' Contribution towards Paving Work re Dedication of Livermere Road | 7 | 18 | 7 | Re-dressing Curbs and Pitchings | 74 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 776 | 19 | 10 | Concrete Work | 22 | 6 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Valde Travel's Asphalte | 139 | 7 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3,048 | 0 | 31 | |||||||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Receipts. | Miscellaneous Expenses. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sale of Old Iron | 11 | 4 | 0 | Masons' Truck and Navvies' Barrow | 13 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Annual Fire re Laying of underground steam pipe, Shoreditch High Street | 20 | 0 | 0 | Watchman's Shelter | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Paviors' Rammers | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| National Telephone Co., Limited. Annual acknowledgment, erecting pole at Hoxton Street Depot | 1 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 5 | 0 | Scavengers' Brooms for yards | 13 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Joinery and Wheelwrights' Work | 13 | 19 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Blacksmiths' Work | 47 | 17 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Plumbers' Work and Repairs | 58 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Repairing Weighing Machine | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Damage to Plate Glass | 3 | 2 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
| Funeral Expenses, and gratuity to workman | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Executors of late Alderman T. Challis, acknowledgment for user of land thrown into street, Shepherdess Walk (2 years) | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 177 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Expenses of Steam Road Roller. Labourers' Wages | 565 | 15 | 9½ | ||||||||||||||||
| Smiths' Work — Sharpening Picks, &c. | 31 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lard, Oil, and Engineer's Sundries | 6 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Firewood | 4 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 607 | 19 | 0½ | |||||||||||||||||
| Amounts Carried forward | £809 | 4 | 10 | 59,389 | 16 | 8 | Amounts carried forward | £785 | 1 | 6½ | 4,991 | 10 | 5½ | 36,965 | 12 | 1 | |||