Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea]
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Brought forward | £5,989 | 4 | 8 | |||
Depreciation on value of horses during the year | nil. | |||||
Credit. | ||||||
Improved value of horses during the year | 108 | 0 | 0 | |||
Cash received by sale of materials, &c., clinkers for new roads, &c. | 46 | 10 | 9 | |||
Received for removal of trade refuse | 5 | 17 | 6 | |||
Received for sale of manure | 6 | 6 | 8 | |||
166 | 14 | 11 | ||||
£5,822 | 9 | 9 | ||||
Add depreciation upon First Cost of Buildings, &c., £14,334 15s., at 1½ per cent, | 215 | 0 | 5 | |||
Add depreciation upon First Cost of Plant—Dust Carts, Vans, Weighbridge, &c. (£566) at 10 per cent. | 56 | 12 | 0 | |||
271 | 12 | 5 | ||||
Add annual proportion of Capital and Interest on £12,000, borrowed for 20 years at 3½ per cent. Add ditto ditto on £2,500 | 988 | 10 | 0 | |||
ditto | 251 | 10 | 0 | |||
1,240 | o | 0 | ||||
Cost of Dusting for the 12 months ended 25th March, 1890 | £7.334 | 2 | 2 |
During the 12 months ended the 25th of March, 1890,
16,698 loads of house refuse have been collected, representing
a total weight of 24,020 tons, 6 cwt., 2 qrs.
The average number of loads collected per day has been
56.6, representing an average weight collected per day of 80 tons,
2 cwt., 1 qr., 26 lbs.
Included in the foregoing collection are 1,875 loads of
refuse which have been sent to private shoots and disposed of