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1899-1900
(8 months).
1900-1901
(12 months).
1901-1902
(12 months).
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Cost of Installation 225 2 5 123 7 1 32 8 7
Current Expenditure—
Wages 63 11 0 115 11 5 119 2 2
Milk 160 11 9 272 9 2 185 5 10
Rent 18 0 0 18 0 0 18 0 0
Sugar 12 1 2 8 6 6 14 2 6
Fuel 4 8 2 9 4 0 9 19 10
Sundries 5 19 0 21 13 5 22 19 6
Renewal of Bottles — 25 18 8 33 6 5
264 11 1 471 3 2 402 16 3
Receipts from sale of Milk 187 0 0 328 9 5 245 16 3
Cost to the Rates 77 11 1 142 13 7 157 0 0
N.B.— The total sum of cost of Installation (extending over
8 years) is £390 18s. 1d., but this sum, though paid
out of Revenue, may be really regarded as a capital
charge, as it will not occur in future years.
Battersea practically tells the same story, as also other places
that are trying the experiment of a Milk Depot. Surely an
expenditure out of the rates of £150 to £200 per annum ought not
to be allowed to influence a Sanitary Authority in hesitating to carry
out a scheme which is warranted to have far-reaching effects, and
to do incalculable good, practically and educationally. To reduce
the present Lambeth average of 150 deaths per 1,000 to, or under,
100, is a praiseworthy object for which the Lambeth Borough