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Bethnal Green 1879

[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, £10,600.
Compensation Annuity of £30, payable for life to a Collector of the late Paving Commission.
£1400—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £7000, borrowed of the London Life Association in December, 1863, for defraying costs 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.
£3000—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.
£4000—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.
£6400—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.
£3500—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £7000, borrowed of the London Life Association in April, I869, 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.
£5000—Balance of Mortgage of Rates for £10,000, borrowed of the London Life Association in March, 1870, for defraying the cost of
Paving 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.
£18000 Balance of Loan for £20,000, borrowed of the Metropolitan Board of Works in March, 1878, for defraying the cost of Paving the
Carriageways of various Streets, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 15s. percent. per
annum.
£15,000—Borrowed of the Metropolitan Board of Works in March, 1880, £13,000, for defraying cost of Carriageway Paving and cost of
Footway Paving between the Parks, and £2,000 for constructing Mortuary at £3 15s. per cent.

METROPOLITAN CONSOLIDATED RATE.

RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
£sd£s.d.
Balance at Lady-day, 1879621170Collectors' Poundage13294
Amount paid into the Bank subsequently to Lady-day, 1879, of Rate made at Michaelmas, 18783651Metropolitan Board of Works, pursuant to their Precept778879
Amount of Rate at 3d. in the £, made at Lady-day, 1879, and Arrears of former Rate collected and paid into the Bank at Midsummer, 18793510197
Amount of Rate at 3d. in the pound, made at Michaelmas, 1879, and Arrears of former Rate collected and paid into the Bank, at Lady-day, 1880347948
Balance272149
£7920171£7920171