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Mile End 1884

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

Published
1885
Pages
66
Tables
53

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  • Page 5
    The number of Meetings of the Vestry and Committees has been—
    MEETINGS.YEARS.REMARK.
    1831-82.1882-83.1883-84.1884-85.
  • Page 6
    It would be useless to give a list of all Bills considered, and therefore only those in which some active step was taken and the nature of that step are given.
    SessionTitle of Bill.Nature of Steps Taken.
  • Page 10
    The following is a statement showing the persons who have supplied the corn and fodder for the Vestry's horses and the prices paid:—
    Date.Tenders accepted. Contractors.Clover. 1st. cut.Meadow Hay.Wheat Straw.Oat Straw.Oats per qr.Beans
  • Page 14
    This would be slightly under the amount of last year's expenditure, but for the sake of affording a comparison, the following Table is given:—
  • Page 16
    Statement shewing the Amounts paid to the School Board on its Precepts since its formation
    Date.Amount.Date.Amount.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 16
    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 18 19
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£sd.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roadsonly.Cleansing, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishmen and sundry Charges.
    18841884£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 20 21
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.FO.Receipt.£s.d.£s.d.Rate.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 22 23
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 23
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 24 25
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.dDate.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 26 27
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 27
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing-, Paving, and Roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 28 29
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 29
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Hoads onlyCleansing, Paving, and Roads combinccEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 30 31
    30 General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 31
    D.ate.Fo.eceipts.£s..d.£s.ate.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Koads onlyCleansing, Paving, and roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    1885Brought forward£s..d.£s.d.£s..d.£s.d.
  • Page 32 33
    32 General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 33
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads onljCleansing, Paving, and roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
  • Page 34 35
    34 General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 35
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s..d.£s..d.Date.Fo.Expenditure,Cleansing only.Paving and Koads only.Cleansing, Paving and roads combined.Establishment and sundry charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 36 37
    36 General Purposes Account. General Purses Account. 37
    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.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 38 39
    38General Purposes Account. General Purposses Account. 39
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s. d.£s.d, late.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving, and roads combinedEstablishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.1.£s.d£s.d.
  • Page 40 41
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.£s.dDate.Fo.Expenditure.Cleansing only.Paving and Roads only.Cleansing, Paving and road6 combined.Establishment and sundry-Charges.
    £s.d£sd.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 40 41
    Summary of Receipts ind Expenditure.
    £8.d.
    Balance brought forward from last account1882104£s.d.
  • Page 42 43
    42 General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account. 43
    Liabilities.£8| 5Assets.£8.d.
  • Page 44 45
    Lighting Account. Lighting Account.
    Date,Fo.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 44 45
    Summary of Receipts and Expenditure.
  • Page 44 45
    Lighting Account. Lighting Account. Statement of Liabilities and Assets. 11 Statement of Liabilities and Assets.
    Liabilities.£8.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 46 47
    46 Sewers Account. Sewers Aooount ____
    Date.Fo.Recepts.£s.date.Fo.Expenditure.Construction.Cleansing.Metropolitan Board of Works.Establishment and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 48 49
    Sewers Account. Sewers Account.
    Date.Fo.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Fo.Expenditure.Construction.Cleansing.Metropolitan Board of Works.Establshmnt and sundry Charges.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 48 49
    Summary of Receipts and Expenditure.
    DISBURSEMENTS.
  • Page 48 49
    Sewers Account. Sewers Account. Statement of Liabilities and 4ssets. Statement of Liabilities and Assets.
    Liabilities.£s.dAssets.£s.d.
  • Page 50 51
    Explanatory Statement. Explanatory Statement. Comparison of Cash Book and Accounts. Comparison of Cash Book and Accounts.
    £s.d£s.d.
  • Page 52 53
    52 List of Contracts entered into during he Year ending 25th March, 1885. 53
    Date.Names of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.Amount paid cr to be paid to the Contractors
  • Page 57
    PAVED FOOTWAYS.
  • Page 58
    UNPAVED CARRIAGEWAYS. By the accompanying list will be found the quantity of road material used in maintaining the several roads in the Hamlet which required repair during the year.
    Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.
  • Page 59
    Continued from previous page...
    Gravel yds.Granite yds.Flint yds.Gravel ydGranite yds.Flint yds.
  • Page 59
    ROAD MATERIALS.
    Year ending March, 1883.Year ending March, 1884.Year ending March, 1885.
    Yards.£s.dYards.£s.s.Yards.£s.d
  • Page 59
    The watering of the Hamlet was done by your own vans, and the following table will show the cost for the past year and that of the two previous years.
    1883.1884.1885.
    £s.d..£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 61
    The quantity of dust collected was 13,044 loads, and the sum expended in sifting and loading was ,£422 7s. 4d. The cost of disposing of hard core was £72 us. REMOVAL OF DUST.
    188318841885
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 61
    The cost of disposing of street refuse has been as follows :—
    18831884.1885.
    £s.d.f,s.d.£.s.d.
  • Page 62
    WATERING THE HAMLET. The East London Water Company, after much negotiation, reduced the price of water, which was 9d. per 1ooo gallons, 10 per cent. The watering of the Hamlet was done by your own vans, and the following table will show the cost for the past year and that of the two previous years.
    1883.1884.1885.
    £S..d.£S.d.£S.d.
  • Page 64 65
    64 Surveyor's Accounts, for ending 25th March, 1885. 65
    dateReceipts£Date.Expenditure.Wages. Hoads.Incidentnls, roadsWages, Scwers.Incidentals, Sewers.
    —-£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d
  • Page 66 67
    6 Surveyor's Account, for Tear ending March 25th, 1885. 67
    Receipts.£8.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Hoads.Incidentals, lieads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
  • Page 68 69
    Surveyor's Account, for the year ending March 25th, 1885.
    Date.Receipts.£s.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, RoadsWages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 70 71
    Surveyor's Account, for the year ending March 25th, 1885.
    Date.Receipts.£s.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 72 73
    Surveyor's Account, for the year ending March 25th, 1885.
    Date.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals; Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 74 75
    Surveyor's Account, for the year ending March 25th, 1885.
    Date.Receipts.£s.d.Date.Expenditure.Wages, Roads.Incidentals, Roads.Wages, Sewers.Incidentals, Sewers.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page -
    During the year ending March, 1885, I have received from your Inspector under the Acts, the following samples for analysis, viz.:
  • Page -
    TABLE I.—Births and Deaths for each Quarter', commencing April, 1884, and ending March, 1885.
    Quarter endingJune, 1884.September, 1884.December, 1884.March, 1885.Total for four Qtrs.
    Male.FemaleTotal.Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.Male.Female.Total.
  • Page -
    TABLE II. SHOWING DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES.
    Mortality from all causes.Scarlet Fever.Typhus Fever.Typhoid Fever.Small-pox.Measles.Diphtheria.Cyanche, Maligna.Diarrhœa.Diarrhœa of Children under 5 years.Cholera.Dysentery.Pertussis.Croup.Erysipelas.Rheumatic Fever.Gout.Disease of Liver and Stomach.Diseases of Kidneys.Tabes Mesenterica.Bronchitis.Pleuritis.Pneumonia.of Children under five years.Dentition.Scrofulous Diseases.Hydrocephalus.Convulsions of Infants.Dropsy.Cancer.Phthisis.Intestinal Obstruction.Peritonitis.Uterine Diseases.Diseased Heart and Lungs.Apoplexy, Paralysis & other Diseases of Brain.Pyæmia.Puerperal Fever.Premature Birth.Debility from Birth.Violence, Privation and Poison.Senectus.Other Diseases chiefly Chronic.Syphilitic Disease.Disease of Rectum and Bladder.Inquests.Gastritis.General Debility.
    | BronchitisPneumonia.
  • Page -
    T able III.—Deaths from seven principal infectious diseases for each Quarter, commencing April, 1884, and ending March, 1885.
    Quarter endingSmall-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping Cough.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.
  • Page -
    TABLE V. Births and Deaths in the Five Wards, Workhouse and Infirmary from April, 1884, to March, 1885.
    During the Month endingBirths.1 North.2 East.3 West.4 Centre.5 South.City Union and Workhouse.Infirmary.TotalTotals for Quarters.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
  • Page -
    TABLE VI. Deaths in each Ward for the year 1884—85.
    Ward.Population. Estimated, 1881.Deaths, 1884—85.Rate per 1000.
  • Page -
    TABLE VII. Return of Streets and Roads where fatal cases of Small Pox and Fever have occurred. Inspection of each house having been made.
    CasesCases
  • Page -
    TABLE VIII. Showing the Localities in which cases of Small-Pox were removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals during the year ending March, 1885.
    Locality.Number.Locality.Number.Locality.Number.
  • Page -
    TABLE IX. Cases of Fever removed to Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.