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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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| Half-year ending Michaelmas, 1868. | Half-year ending Lady-day, 1869. | TOTAL. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Brought over | 799 | 7 | 10 | 860 | 1 | 2 | 20119 | 9 | 11 |
| Wages to Shoemaker at the Workhouse | 7 | 16 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 0 |
| Wages to Cook at the Workhouse | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| Do. to Nurses of the Wards | 37 | 9 | 6 | 40 | 10 | 0 | 77 | 19 | 6 |
| 847 | 18 | 4 | 911 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| SmallPayments by Master of the Workhouse | 19 | 2 | 0½ | 22 | 7 | 6 | 41 | 9 | 6½ |
| Weekly'sEstablishment at Margate | .. | 47 | 19 | 4 | 47 | 19 | 4 | ||
| Small Pox Hospital | 18 | 18 | 0 | .. | 18 | 18 | 0 | ||
| Fever do. | 5 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 0 |
| * Plashet School | 1265 | 13 | 1 | 1457 | 8 | 9 | 2723 | 1 | 10 |
| OUT-RELIEF. | . | ||||||||
| Including £293 9s. 8½d. advanced to Non-settled Poor. | |||||||||
| Money, and Wine and Spirits, for the sick-outdoor Poor, paid by Relieving Officers | 3904 | 15 | 9 | 4968 | 19 | 8873 | 14 | 10¼ | |
| Bread | 837 | 12 | 0 | 1230 | 14 | 9 | 2068 | 6 | 9 |
| Meat | 217 | 1 | 8 | 314 | 15 | 6 | 531 | 17 | 2 |
| Burials | 49 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 17 | 0 | 107 | 18 | 0 |
| Burial Fees | 25 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 55 | 5 | 0 |
| Carried forward | 5033 | 10 | 5 | 6603 | 11 | 34705 | 4 | 10¾ | |