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Bethnal Green 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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LIABILITIES.
Amount unpaid of Mortgages, granted by the late Paving Commission, and chargeable on the General Rate, £14,100.
Compensation Annuities of £30 each, payable for life to two Collectors of the late Paving Commission.
£1,250—Balance of Mortgage of Sewers Rates for £5,000, borrowed of the Provident Life Office in May, 1857, for defraying cost of construction
of New Sewers, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent.
£1,750—Balance of Mortgage of Sewers Rates for £5,000, borrowed of the Eagle Assurance Company in August, 1859, for defraying cost of
construction of New Sewers, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 4 ¾ per cent.
£3,850—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £7,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in December, 1863, for defraying cost of
construction of New Sewers, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
to be reduced to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments of principal and interest within thirty days after they
respectively become due.
£6,500—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance in December, 1865, towards
defraying cost of Paving Footways of "Old Streets," and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per
cent. per annum.
£7,500—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance in July, 1867, towards
defraying cost of Paving Footways of "Old Streets," and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent.
per annum.
£12,000—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £16,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in December, 1867, for defraying the cost of
Paving the Carriageways of Hackney Road and Whitechapel Road, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest
at 5 per cent. per annum, to be reduced to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments of principal and interest within
thirty days after they respectively become due.
£4,950—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £7,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in April, 1869, for defraying the cost of Paving the
Carriageway of Green Street, and the unpaved portion of the Carriageway of Bethnal Green Road, and to be repaid by twenty equal
annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent. per annum, to be reduced to £4 10s. per cent per annum on payment of the instalments
of principal and interest within thirty days after they respectively become due.
£8,500—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in March, 1870, for defraying the cost of Paving the
Footways of "Old Streets," and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at 5 per cent. per annum, to be reduced
to £4 10s. per cent. per annum on payment of the instalments of principal and interest within thirty days after they respectively
become due.

SEWERS RATE.

RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
£s.d.£s.d.
Balance in hand, 25th March, 1872105166Collectors' Poundage37111
Amount paid into the Bank, subsequently to Lady-day, 1872, of Arrears of Rate made Christmas, 187116054Cleansing — Repairing, and Flushing Sewers599510
Incidentals. — Bricks, Lime, Cement, Stoneware Glazed Pipes, Gully Gratings, Brooms, Lanterns, Repairs, &c.6912I
Amount of Rate at 1d. in the £, made at Michaelmas, 1872, and Arrears of former Rate collected and paid into the Bank954159
Provident Life Office.- Interest on Balance of Mortgage for691{)
Amount of Rate at 1d. in the £, made at Christmas, 1872, and Arrears of former Rate collected and paid into the Bank82700Ditto, Fifteenth Annual Instalment of £5000, advanced on25000
Eagle Assurance Company.— Interest on Balance of Mortgage for One Year, at 4¾ per Cent.88146
Half of Interest allowed by Central Bank of London on account1153
Ditto, Thirteenth Annual Instalment of £5000, advanced on Mortgage 4th August 186925000
Balance at Lady-day (being an excess of Expenditure over89697Metropolitan Board of Works, pursuant to Precept for proportion of Liabilities existing before the expiration of the " Metropolitan Sewer Act, 1848"166152
London Life Association.—Interest on Balance of Mortgage18900
Ditto, Ninth Annual Instalment of £7000, advanced on Mort gage 30th December, 186335000
Urinals.- Water Supply550
Half of Payments for Printing, Books, Stationery, Overseers' Expenses, Stipends, and Sundry Charges common to the8701611
£294624£294624