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Limehouse 1869
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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No. 5.
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Comprising the Parish of Limehouse, the Hamlet Ratcliff, and the Parishes of Shadwell and Wapping.
| REVENUE. | OUTLAY. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | £ | s. | d. | ||||||||
| Balance brought-forward | 51 | 6 | I | Balance due to Treasurer at Lady-day, 1809 | 259 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| Ditto at Deposit | 500 | 0 | 0 | Charges for Paving | 1,547 | 11 | 11 | |||||
| 551 | 0 | Lighting | 3,340 | 12 | 7 | |||||||
| To Cash of Overseers of Parishes in the District upon Orders of Contribution, viz:— | Cleansing and Watering | 3,227 | 10 | 10 | ||||||||
| Stone and Materials | 442 | 14 | 7 | |||||||||
| General Purposes | 13,500 | 0 | 0 | Urinals | 28 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| Sewerage ditto | 1,990 | 0 | 0 | Charges on General Rates — | ||||||||
| 15,490 | 0 | Interest | 1,197 | 0 | 7 | |||||||
| „ Ditto to meet Precept of Metropolitan Board | 1,730 | 13 | Principal repaid | 2,630 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ,, Ditto Reinstatements of Paving and Contributions | 485 | 16 | 3,827 | 0 | 7 | |||||||
| ,, Ditto Contributions to Sewers | 25 | 18 | „ Improvements—Limehouse | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| „ Ditto Rents, Sundries, Ac. | 77 | 14 | Shadwell | 394 | 11 | 0 | ||||||
| ,, Ditto from Improvement Loan Account (Wapping) | 55 | 15 | Wapping | 19 | 10 | 2 | ||||||
| „ Ditto of Metropolitan Board of Works towards Shadwell (New Crane) Improvement | 4.521 | 11 | 418 | 6 | 8 | |||||||
| „ Common Charges and Sundries | 1,143 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| „ Compensations | 136 | 16 | 2 0 | |||||||||
| „ Rent,—Shadwell Stone Yard | 12 | 0 | ||||||||||
| ,, Parliamentary proceedings | 120 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| „ Expenditure on Sewers Account | 3,658 | 7 | 11 | |||||||||
| Balance in Treasurer's hands | 4,218 | 9 | 6 | |||||||||
| Ditto Clerk's | 26 | 0 | 9 | |||||||||
| Ditto Surveyor's | 32 | 5 | 10 | |||||||||
| 4,276 | 16 | 1 | ||||||||||
| £222,938 | 15 | Ditto at Deposit (Wapping) | 500 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| £22,938 | 15 | 10 | ||||||||||
We hereby certify that we have examined and allowed the Accounts, of which this
Account is an abstract.
Dated this 21st day of July, 1870.
Edward Richardson,
George Batts, Auditors.
David Milne,