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Mile End 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

Published
1884
Pages
65
Tables
55

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  • Page 8
    The number of meetings of the Vestry and Committees has been—
    MEETINGS.YEARS.REMARK.Meetings
    1850-81.1881-82.1882-83.1883-84.
  • Page 9
    The Committee carefully considered every one which in any way affected the interests of the Hamlet, and upon their recommendation the Vestry took the active steps referred to in the appended list, with reference to the Bills there referred to.
    SessionTitle of Bill.Nature of Steps Taken.
  • Page 14
    The following is a statement showing the prices paid for corn and fodder for horses.
    Date.Tenders accepted.Clover. 1st. cut.Meadow Hay,Wheat Straw.Oat Straw.Oats per qr.Beans.
  • Page 15
    Renaming and re been numbering of the following list gives the names of the streets which have been re-named or re-numbered during the past year:—
    Renumbered only.Renamed and Renumbered.New Names.
  • Page 20 21
    Statement shewing the Amounts paid to the School Board on its Precepts since its formation
    Date.Amount.Date.Amount.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 20 21
    Statement shewing the Amounts paid to the Metropolitan Board of Works out of Rates on their Calls since the formation of that Board.
    Year.Amount.Year.Amount.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 24 25
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.To.Receipts.£ S. d.£S.d.
  • Page 24 25
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 26 27
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 26 27
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving md Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and }oads combinedEstablishmen and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£B.d.
  • Page 28 29
    General Purposes Account.
    Dale.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 28 29
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 30 31
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d
  • Page 30 31
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads onlyCleansing, Paving. and. Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 32 33
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 32 33
    General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.raving and Roads onlyCleansing, Paving. and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 34 35
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads onlyCleansing, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£8.d.£s.d.
    1884Brought forward33034931883Brought forward1851104420171185814655011810
    Aug. 8295Mr. M. Jutsum, amount of purchase money of Trafalgar square65000
  • Page 36 37
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.eceipts.£s.d.£s.dDate.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 38 39
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 33
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£8.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads onlyCleansing, Paving, and roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 40 41
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.dPate.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paring, and roads combined.Establishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 42 43
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving and roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d£s.d.
  • Page 44 45
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paying and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving and roads combined.Establishment and sundry charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 46 47
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving and roads combined.Establishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 46 47
    Summary of Receipts and Expenditure.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 48 49
    General Purposes Account.
    Liabilities.£s?Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 50 51
    Lighting Account. Lighting Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 50 51
    Summary of Receipts and Expenditure.
  • Page 50 51
    Lighting Account Lighting Account. statement of Liabilities and Assets. Statement of Liabilities and Assets.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£S.d.
  • Page 52 53
    Sewers Account. Sewers Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Construction.Cleansing.Metropolitan Board of Works.Establishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 54
    Sewers Account. Sewers Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Construction.Cleansing.Metropolitan Board of WorksEstablshmnt. and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 54
    Summary of Receipts and Expenditure DISBURSEMENTS.
  • Page 54
    Sewers Account. Sewers Account. Statement of Liabilities and Assets. Statement of Liabilities and Assets.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 55
    Explanatory Statement. Explanatory Statement. Comparison of Cash Book and Accounts. Comparison of Cash Booh and Accounts.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 56
    List of Contracts entered into during the Year ending 25th March, 1884.
    Date.Names of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.Amount paid cr to be paid to the Conractors.
    1883£s.d.
  • Page 61
    ROADWAY PAVING. The eastern portion of Devonshire Street has been repaved with new 4-in. by 7-in. Kincardineshire pitching, and the old stone re-dressed and used in paving Wades Place, Union Street, Mulberry Street, Holloway Street, and Ely Terrace. The footways and curbs of the various streets were repaired.
    The quantities of the various works were as follows :—
  • Page 62
    UNPAVED CARRIAGEWAYS, The following list will shew the quantity of material used on each of the roads in the district repaired during the year :—
    Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.
  • Page 63
    Continued from previous page...
    Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.
  • Page 64
    The following tables will shew the cost of road materials, watering, dusting, scavenging, and removal of dust during the past year:—
  • Page 64
    This rate will be found to be in excess of that of former years, but the Vestry will remember that 15 per cent. is now allowed for depreciation instead of 8, and the number of days worked is considerably less than former years.
  • Page 65
    SCAVENGING.
    1882.1883.1884.
    £sd£s.d.
  • Page 68 69
    STEAM ROLLER.
  • Page 72 73
    Surveyor's Accounts, for the year ending 25th March, 1884.
    Date.Receipts£S.d.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
    1883Balance brought forward, as per accounts audited28261883Wages£s.d.£s.d.£sd.£s.d.
  • Page 74 75
    Surveyor 's Account, for ??? Tear ending March 25th, 1884.
    Date.Receipts.£s.d.Dale.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 76
    Surveyor's Account, for the ???Year ending March 26th, 1884.
    Date.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, RoadsWages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page -
    Surveyor's Account, for the Year ending March 25th, 1884.
    Date.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
  • Page -
    Surveyor's Account, for the Year ending March 25th, 1884.
    Date.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
  • Page -
    Summary.
  • Page -
    ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. During the year ending March 31st, 1884, I have received from the Inspector under the above Acts, the following samples for analysis, viz.:
  • Page -
    TABLE I.—Births and Deaths for each Quarter, commencing April, 1883, and ending March, 1884.
    Quarter endingJune, 1883.September, 1883.December, 1883.March, 1884.Total for four Qtrs.
    Births.Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.
    6105501160557553111053550010354713718424147
  • Page -
    TABLE II. SHOWING DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES.
    Mortality from all cause.Fever.Enteric Fever.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Cynanche, M allgna, Diphtheria.Diarrhœa.Diarrhœa o' Children under five years.Cholera.Dysentery.Whooping-cough.Croup.Erysipelas.Rheumatic Fever.Disease of Liver.Tabes Mesenterica.Bronchitis, Plcuritis, and Pneumonia.Bronchitis, &c., under three years.Dentition.Scrofulous Disease.Hydrocephalus Convulsions.Dropsy.Cancer.Phthisis.Hernia.Uterine Diseases.Diseases of Heart.Apoplexy and Disease of Brain.Pyæmia.Premature Birth, Debility from Birth.Violence, Poison, PrivationNatural Decay.Other Diseases, chiefly chronic.syphilitic Diseases.Disease of Rectum and Bladder.Inquests.
  • Page -
    T able III. —Deaths from seven principal infectious diseases for each Quarter, commencing April, 1883, and ending March, 1884.
    Quarter endingSmall-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping Cough.Continued Fever.Enteric Fever.Cholera.Totals.
  • Page -
    Table IV.—Showing Deaths at various ages during the four Quarters.
    Quarter ending0 to 1 year.1 to 5 years.5 to 10 years.10tol5 years.15 to20 years.20to30 years.30to40 years.40to50 years.50to60 years.60to70 years.70 and upwdsGreatst.age at death during each Qtr.