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Paddington 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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56 Borough of Paddington.

The Rates levied by the Vestry since the passing of the Metropolis Local Management Act in 1855 for all purposes, including those over which the Vestry has no control, have been as follow:—

s.d.£
For the year 1856 2based upon a rateable522,570
value of
1857 26538,879
1858 24582,995
1859 27605,382
1860 30625,479
1861 28643,063
1862 28617,840
1863 2646,256
1864 30663,172
1865 30685,434
1866 32704,714
1867 36729,838
1868 3740,686
1869 39759,158
1870 40773,524
Under the Provisions of the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869.1871 34954,868
1872 3968,340
1873 3984,582
1874 3995,009
1875 361,004,095
1876 361,091,656
1877 31,098,262
1878 371,115,550
1879 391,125,644
1880 311½1,140,100
1881 3101,214,844
1882 3101,234,626
1883 401,243,708
1884 421,249,968
1885 41,259,732
1886 451,276,254
1887 41,273,030
1888 441,276,776
1889 481,280,348
1890 410½1,284,770

The Rateable Value of the Parish, based upon the Rate made
in October, 1890, was £1,284,770.
List of the Principal Statutes under which Rates are Levied.
*** The earliest Acts are alone given in this List, the object being to show
the dates at which the duty of levying a rate was in each case imposed
on the Parochial Authorities:—
I. Poor Rate.—18 b 19 Vic., Cap. 120 (a.d. 1855). (Transferring
to the existing Vestry the powers and duties given or reserved
to the Vestry elected under the Local Act of 1824,
5 Geo. IV., Cap. 126, which superseded the Open Common
Law Vestry).
II. Lighting Rate.—The same.
III. General Rate.—The same.
IV. Sewers Rate.—The same.
V. Main Drainage and Metropolitan Consolidated Rate.—The same. 1
VI. Church Building Rate.—58 Geo. III., Cap. 45 (a.d. 1818).
VII. Poor Rate proper.—43 Eliz., Cap. 2 (a.d. 1601).
VIII. Police Rate.—10 Geo. IV., Cap. 44 (a.d. 1829).
IX. County Rate.—12 Geo. II., Cap. 29 (a.d. 1738).
X. Common Poor Fund Rate.—30 and 31 Vic., Cap. 6 (a.d. 18G7).
XI. Metropolitan Asylum District Rate.—The same.
XII. West London District School Rate.—7 & 8 Vic., Cap. 101 (a.d. 1844).
XIII. Metropolitan Fire Brigade Rate.—28 & 29 Vic., Cap. 90 (a.d. 1865).
XIV. Baths and Wash-houses Rate.—9 and 10 Vic., Cap. 74 (a.d. 1846).
XV. Sewers Rate.—18 and 19 Vic., Cap. 120 (a.d. 1855).
XVI. School Board Rate.—33 and 34 Vic., Cap. 75 (a.d. 1870).
XVII. Main Drainage Rate.—18 and 19 Vic., Cap. 120 (a.d. 1855).
XVIII. Metropolitan Consolidated Rate.—32 & 33 Vic., Cap. 102 (a.d. 1869)
FRANK DETHRIDGE,
Vestry Clerk,