Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 Rates | 9875 | 16 | By repaid amount, borrowed from Loan Account, 25th March, 1867 | 619 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| „ Surrey Consumers' Gas Company, for Repairs to Trenches | 60 | 19 | 10 | „ repaid amount, borrowed from Lighting Account | 63 | 3 | 4¾ | |||
| „ Southwark Water Company, for Repairs to Trenches | 40 | 18 | l | ,, paid Salaries, Medical Officer of Health, Clerks, Surveyor, and Inspector | ||||||
| „ Contributions towards cost of paving Fossyth Street | 13 | 4 | 7 | of Nuisances, one year | 503 | 0 | 0 | |||
| „ „ „ „ Commercial Street | 119 | 18 | 2 | „ „ Commission | 252 | 8 | 2 | |||
| „ „ „ „ Union Place | 17 | 9 | 10 | „ „ Paviors' Labour | 421 | 5 | 3 | |||
| „ „ „ „ Debnam's Road | 1 | 4 | 0 | „ ,, Day Labour | 575 | 12 | 7 | |||
| „ Mr. Dethick for reinstating Main Sewer Trenches | 157 | 6 | 0 | „ „ Cartage | 560 | 11 | 4 | |||
| „ Interest on Current Account with London and Westminster Bank | 19 | 18 | 0 | „ „ Stone | 2107 | 7 | 2 | |||
| „ Temporary Loan, London and Westminster Bank | 2000 | 0 | 0 | ,, repaid on Account of Loan and Interest (Mr. J. W. Barret) .. | 283 | 11 | 8 | |||
| „ Temporary Loan, repaid by Guardians of the Poor | 1500 | 0 | 0 | „ paid Valuation Committees' Expenses | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||
| „ Sundry Contributions | 19 | 17 | 7 | „ „ Lime | 25 | 4 | 6 | |||
| ,, „ Ballast and Gravel | 86 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
| £13,826 | 12 | „ „ Watering Parish Roads | 94 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| „ Borrowed from Loan Account | £228 | 5 | „ „ Maintenance and Watering Main Roads | 3629 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| „ „ „ Lighting Account | £180 | 13 | 6 | „ „ Fire Escapes, one quarter | 40 | 0 | 0 | |||
| £408 | 18 | 11 | „ „ Stationery, &c. | 68 | 19 | |||||
| ,, „ Removing Dust | 250 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| „ „ Surveyors and Legal Expenses re certain Appeals for Assessments | 439 | 13 | 4 | |||||||
| „ „ Temporary Loans to Guardians of the Poor | 3000 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| „ repaid London and Westminster Bank, on Account of Loan and Interest | 1012 | 17 | 8 | |||||||
| „ paid Tradesmen's Bills, &c. | 172 | 19 | 8 | |||||||
| £14,235 | 11 | £14,235 | 11 | |||||||
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.