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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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DISPOSAL OF DUST.
During the year the Vestry have sifted and disposed of dust,
and the total amount receivable from this source is £292 9s. 8d.
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.
| 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Wages of Dust- men | 534 | 4 | 4 | Wages of Dust-) men | 553 | 11 | 7 | Wages of Dustmen | 645 | 13 | 0 |
| Keep of horses =2870 working | 905 | 16 | 10 | Keep of horses, =2930 working days | 882 | 1 | 0 | Keep of horses =3396 work- ing days. | 1011 | 14 | 6 |
| Horse-hire for dusting | 0 | 0 | 0 | Horse-hire for dc | 49 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Gt.E. Railway' for carriage & shoot for hard core | 72 | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
| Rent of Shoots | 222 | 19 | 6 | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
The cost of disposing of street refuse has been as follows :—
| 1883 | 1884. | 1885. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | f, | s. | d. | £. | s. | d. | ||
| Use of Shoot 126 | 19 | 2 | Rent of Shoots. | .158 | 17 | 0 | Carpenters Co. | |||
| G. E. Railway, for carriage of sweepings | 5 | 9 | Shoot at Stratford | 70 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| £224 | 4 | 11 | £158 | 17 | 0 | £70 | 0 | 0 | ||
HORSE KEEPING.
The total cost of keeping horses for the year was
£2538 7s. 5d.
The Vestry's horses worked equal to 8514 days for one
horse ; the cost was therefore 5s. 11½d. per horse per day. The
cost last year was 6s. o½d. per horse per day.