Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Forty-first annual report of the Vestry of the Parish of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell for the year 1896-97
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asphalte paving of St. James Walk, part
of Woodbridge Street, St. James Street
and Newcastle Row, Penton Grove, Mount
Zion, Easton Street, Exmouth Street, and
part of Rosoman Street and Skinner
Street. The annual repayment of principal
is .£600, and the final instalment will
be paid on 1st January, 1898.
£5,932 Balance of £6,200 borrowed in March,
1893, at 3½ per cent., from the County
Council for the purchase of freehold land
in Rosebery Avenue as a site for the new
Town Hall. £3,700 is to be repaid by
annual instalments spread over 56 years,
the first four being £67 each, and the
remainder £66 each. £2,500 is to be
repaid in February, 1898, or earlier, from
the proceeds of the sale of the old Vestry
Hall.
£763 Balance of £1,090 borrowed in February,
1894, from the County Council for 10 years,
at 3½ per cent., for surface water drainage
works at Muswell Hill, and granite paving
in Noble Street. The annual repayment
is £109.
£7,664 Balance of £8,250, borrowed in
August, 1894, from the County Council,
at 3½ per cent. one half the estimated cost
of the Town Hall. The amount is repayable
as to £7,750 in 30 years and as
to £500 in 15 years, the first payments of
principal being £293 per annum.
£1,200 Balance of £2,000, borrowed in October,
1894, from the County Council for 5