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Limehouse 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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No. 17.
to the
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE LIMEHOUSE
DISTRICT.
Department of Works,
Offices,
White Horse Street,
Commercial Road East.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Report upon the Works executed
in the District from Lady-day, 1879, to Lady-day, 1880.
SEWERS.
New Sewers have been constructed of the following lengths
and sizes, viz. :—
PIPE SEWERS.
Limehouse—Church Row—12in. 4ft.; 9in. 4ft. ; 6in. 26ft.
Ratcliff—Bromley Street—12in. 440ft.; 9in. 12ft.; 6in. 58ft.
Rose Lane 12in. 250ft.; 9in. 14ft. ; 6in. 48ft.
About 15,000 feet of Brick Sewers, and 28,000 feet of small
Brick and Pipe Sewers have been flushed by the men employed by
the Board.
2 New Gullies constructed.
15 „ altered and repaired.
3 New Gully Grates supplied.
38 ft. of 6-in. pipe drain, to connect the same with the
Sewers.
No. 15.
RETURN OF MON???RAISED ON LOAN AT INTEREST.
| No. | Date of Mortgage. | Amount. | Rate of Interest | Secured on. | For what purpose Borrowed. | From whom Borrowed. | For what Term. | Repayments. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £37,800 | £29,810 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 15 | 1872, June 22 | £7,250 | £3 17/6 | General Rates. | For Improvements in Limehouse. | Metropolitan Board of Works. | Fifty-seven Years, to be repaid as follows : £150 on 1st Oct., 1879 ; £142 on 1st Oct. in 50 succeeding Years. | £6,749 | 0 | 0 |
| (By Contribution from Metropolitan Board.) | ||||||||||
| 16 | 1872, July 24 | £18,000 | £4 10/ | Ditto. | For Paving the Commercial Road, the East India Dock Road, and the West India Dock Road. | London Life Association. | Twenty Years, payable by twenty equal annual instalments. | £6,300 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 1872, August 10 | £4,000 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | For Improvements in Sun Tavern Gap, Shadwell. | Metropolitan Board of Works. | Fifty-seven Years, to be repaid as follows : £50 on 1st Oct., 1879 £79 on 1st Oct. in 50 succeeding Years. | The whole. | ||
| £4,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| (By Contribution f rom Metropolitan Board.) | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1873, January 20 | £2,000 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | Ditto. | Ditto. | Fifty-seven Years, to be repaid as fol lows : £50 on 1st Oct., 1879; £39 on 1st Oct. in 50 succeeding Years. | The whole. | ||
| £2,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| (By Contribution from Metropolitan Board) | ||||||||||
| 19 | 1873, January 20 | £6,000 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | Ditto. | Ditto. | Fifty-seven Years, to be repaid as follows : £120 on lst Oct., 1873; £105 on 1st Oct. in 56 succeeding Years. | £750 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 1873, January 20 | £7,250 | £3 17/6 | Ditto. | For Improvements in Limehouse. | Ditto. | Fifty-seven Years, to be repaid as follows : £138 on 1st Oct., 1873 ; £127 on 1st Oct. in 56 succeeding Years. | £900 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | 1874, October 1 | £2,816 10/ | £3 18/6 | Ditto. | For Improvements in Wapping Wall, Shadwell. | Ditto. | Fifty-five Years, to be repaid as follows : £62 10s. on 1st Oct.,1875; £51 on 1st Oct. in 54 succeeding Years. | £266 | 10 | 0 |
| £85,116 10/ | £50,775 | 10 | 0 | |||||||