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Paddington 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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REPORT, 1899-1900
RETURN showing the amount in the pound levied by the Vestry during the Thirty-three Years ended 1899; also the Number and Rateable value of houses in the Parish, the average Rateable value per house, and the average amount of Parochial Rates paid in respect of each house, &c.—
| Year. | No. of Houses. | Total Rateable value. | Average Rateable value per House. | Rate per £ | Average amount of Parochial Rates paid per House. | Items over which the Vestry has control. | Items over which the Vestry Has no control. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate per £ | Average amount paid per House. | Rate per £ | Average amount paid per House. | |||||||||||||||
| s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d, | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||||
| 1887 | 14,819 | 1,273,030 | 86 | 4 | 4½ | 18 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 2¾ | 5 | 5 | 8½ | 3 | 1¾ | 13 | 10 | 6½ |
| 1888 | 14,948 | 1,276,776 | 85 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 3 |
| 1889 | 15,053 | 1,280,348 | 85 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 7 |
| 1890 | 15,164 | 1,284,770 | 85 | 4 | 10½ | 20 | 14 | 4½ | 1 | 2½ | 5 | 2 | 8½ | 3 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 8 |
| 1891 | 15,257 | 1,326,162 (New Val.) | 87 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 4½ | 5 | 19 | 7½ | 3 | 6½ | 15 | 8 | 1½ |
| 1892 | 15,396 | 1,332,918 | 86 | 5 | 0½ | 21 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 8½ | 15 | 18 | 11 |
| 1893 | 15,543 | 1,339,338 | 86 | 5 | 3½ | 22 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 9½ | 16 | 6 | 1 |
| 1894 | 15,615 | 1,333,470 | 85 | 5 | 5½ | 23 | 3 | 11½ | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0½ | 17 | 3 | 6½ |
| 1895 | 15,646 | 1,329,762 | 85 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 5 |
| 1896 | 15,666 | 1,329,402 (New Val.) | 85 | 5 | 10½ | 24 | 19 | 4½ | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4½ | 18 | 11 | 10½ |
| 1897 | 15,663 | 1,329,008 | 85 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 8 | 4 |
| 1898 | 15,599 | 1,330,204 | 85 | 5 | 6½ | 23 | 11 | 0½ | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1½ | 17 | 10 | 7½ |
| 1899 | 15,615 | 1,338,760 | 85 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6½ | 6 | 11 | 0½ | 4 | 1½ | 17 | 10 | 7½ |
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 & 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.
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. 0 (a.d. 1867).
XI. Metropolitan Asylum District Rate.— The same.