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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
Paddington 1876
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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The Rates levied since the passing of the Metropolis Local Management Act to the end of the year 1876, are as under, viz. :—
| For the year | 1856 | 2 | based upon a rateable value of | 522,570 | |
| 1857 | 2 | 6 | 538.879 | ||
| 1858 | 2 | 4 | 582,995 | ||
| 1859 | 2 | 7 | 605,382 | ||
| 1860 | 3 | 0 | 625,479 | ||
| 1186 | 2 | 8 | 643,063 | ||
| 1862 | 2 | 8 | 617,840 | ||
| 1863 | 2 | 8½ | 646,256 | ||
| 1864 | 3 | 0 | 663,172 | ||
| 1865 | 3 | 0 | 685,434 | ||
| 1866 | 3 | 2 | 704,714 | ||
| 1867.. | 3 | 6 | 729,838 | ||
| 1868.. | 3 | 54 | 740,686 | ||
| 1869.. | 3 | 9 | 759,58 | ||
| 1870.. | 4 | 0 | 773,524 | ||
| i | '1871.. | 3 | 4 | 954,868 | |
| 1872.. | 3 | 968,340 | |||
| 1873.. | 3 | 7 | 987,741 | ||
| 1874.. | 3 | )> | 999,245 | ||
| 1875.. | 3 | 6 | 1,086,900 | ||
| .1876.. | 3 | 6 | 1,091,456 | ||
There are certain Charities under the control of the Vestry,
managed by Trustees appointed by the Vestry and the Charity
Commissioners, and having an annual income of more than Fifteen
Hundred Pounds, which is annually distributed to the Poor in
Coals and Blankets, in Grants to the Parochial National Schools,
in apprenticing sons and daughters of poor parishioners, and in
Annuities to aged persons resident in the Parish, &c.