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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
Mile End 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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Abstract of Lighting Account.
| RECEIPTS. | £ | s. | d. | EXPENDITURE. | £ | s. | d. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount of Calls made upon the Overseers | 3700 | 0 | 0 | The Commercial Gas Company for Lighting the Public Lamps | 3706 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Amount of Interest on Drawing Account at London and Westminster Hank | 7 | 14 | 8 | Messrs. Glover & Co., for repairs to Gas Meters | 2 | 12 | 6 | ||
| Mr. Wright, for Lamp-posts | 22 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Balance of Expenditure over Receipts | 23 | 11 | 10 | £3731 | 6 | 6 | |||
| £373l | 6 | 6 | |||||||
| / | |||||||||
| Balance in hand at Audit, 1878 | £754 | 14 | 8 | ||||||
| Deduct excess of Expenditure over Receipts at this Audit | 23 | 11 | 10 | ||||||
| Amount to credit of Lighting Account | £731 | 2 | 10 | ||||||
SPECIAL LIABILITIES.
Balance of amount borrowed for expenses incurred in purchase of land for, and erection of,
vestry Hall and other incidental expenses, from the Star Life Assurance Society, on the
9th Dec., 1860, upon Mortgage of the General Rates 400 0 0
Balance of amount borrowed towards the cost of widening the North end of White Horse
Lane, from the Star Life Assurance Society, on the 12th day of March, 1868, upon Mortgage
of the General Rates 500 0 0
Balance of £25,000, borrowed from the Metropolitan Board of Works, upon Mortgage of the
whole of the Rates, for the purpose of repairing the Mile End and Commercial Roads 18750 0 0
Balance of £6,000 borrowed for purchasing Wharf Horses, Carts, and other Vehicles and things, and to
build Stabling for accommodation of Horses, and to construct Lay-bye for Barges, lo carry
out the Cleansing of the Streets, and removal of Slops, Rubbish, and Ashes, from the Star Life
Assurance Society, on the 23rd January, 1878, upon mortgage of General Rates 5000 0 0
£24650 0 0