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Rotherhithe 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Average per urinal per annum, £17 12s.
Average cost per unit of accommodation per annum, £4 10s.
Total water used as registered by the meters, 1,874,000 gallons.
The urinals attached to twelve publichouses in different parts of the Parish are also
cleansed by the urinal man, for list see 1895 report.
The cost of maintaining the joint urinals as per accounts tendered by the Vestry of
Bermondsey, amounted to £89 3s. 8d., of which amount this Vestry paid one half,
£44 lis. lOd.
Lighting.
At the commencement of the year the Public Lamps in the Parish numbered
as follows :—
Ordinary Street Lamps 500
Sugg's Patent Lamps 4
10 ft. per hour Lamps 2
Large Lanterns. 4
510
Seventeen additional ordinary lamps have been
erected and fifteen discontinued, as under
NEW LAMPS.
Rotherhithe Street 1
Moodkee Street. 2
New Plough Bridge Approach 10
Plough Road . 1
Castle Buildings 1
Lovat Place l
Midway Place 1
17
Carried forward 17 510

The total cost of the street watering amounted to £393 8s. 7d., and is divided as follows:—

£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
Standposts.Tradesmen's a/c91710
Removing Post, Silwood Street810
Vestry Employees01051893
Pumps.Tradesmen's a/c718
Vestry Employees1182819102791
Horse Hire and Drivers217112
Labour Pumpers1184
Water from Posts and Rents Cnronortion)9700
\ 1 / A. V/ * * V / Kent Company (proportion)4000
£39387