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Rotherhithe 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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TWELFTH GENERAL REPORT
or THE
Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe,
SURREY,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 25th MARCH.
1 8 68.
During the past year the Vestry has held twenty-six General and Special Meetings, and
twenty-seven Committee Meetings.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. SUMMARY STATEMENT. ONE YEAR ENDING MARCH 25th, 1868.

Paving and General Purposes Account.

£s.d.£s.d.
To Cash received from Paving Rates9875168¼By repaid amount, borrowed from Loan Account, 25th March, 1867619113
„ Surrey Consumers' Gas Company, for Repairs to Trenches601910„ repaid amount, borrowed from Lighting Account6334¾
„ Southwark Water Company, for Repairs to Trenches4018l,, paid Salaries, Medical Officer of Health, Clerks, Surveyor, and Inspector
„ Contributions towards cost of paving Fossyth Street1347of Nuisances, one year50300
„ „ „ „ Commercial Street119182„ „ Commission25282
„ „ „ „ Union Place17910„ „ Paviors' Labour42153
„ „ „ „ Debnam's Road140„ ,, Day Labour575127
„ Mr. Dethick for reinstating Main Sewer Trenches15760„ „ Cartage560114
„ Interest on Current Account with London and Westminster Bank19180„ „ Stone210772
„ Temporary Loan, London and Westminster Bank200000,, repaid on Account of Loan and Interest (Mr. J. W. Barret) ..283118
„ Temporary Loan, repaid by Guardians of the Poor150000„ paid Valuation Committees' Expenses3000
„ Sundry Contributions19177„ „ Lime2546
,, „ Ballast and Gravel8630
£13,826129¼„ „ Watering Parish Roads9414
„ Borrowed from Loan Account£22855„ „ Maintenance and Watering Main Roads362920
„ „ „ Lighting Account£180136„ „ Fire Escapes, one quarter4000
£4081811„ „ Stationery, &c.68195
,, „ Removing Dust25000
„ „ Surveyors and Legal Expenses re certain Appeals for Assessments439134
„ „ Temporary Loans to Guardians of the Poor300000
„ repaid London and Westminster Bank, on Account of Loan and Interest1012178
„ paid Tradesmen's Bills, &c.172198
£14,23511£14,23511

Eleven gulleys, thirty-seven gratings, fifty-four drain mouths and two flushing shafts to
sewers, havo been formed and constructed.
100 applications have been made to drain houses into sewers, including notices of
intended new buildings, and plans checked and approved, comprising 229 houses and
premises, 189 of which have been properly drained and completed, and forty are in progress.
About forty cesspools have been done away with.
A fifteen-inch pipe sewer, (about 492 feet) has been laid in the Deptford Old Lower Road,
from the rear of the “Lion south wards, to the Earl sewer, and tho road-gulleys and house
drains have been connected therewith.