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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The following alterations in the Clerks' Department have also been made, viz.:—
The Clerk's Salary has been altered to £200 per annum. Mr. William Burley has been
appointed Assistant Clerk to the Vestry, at a Salary of £120 per annum ; John R. Sutton
has been appointed Copying Clerk, at a Salary of £30 per annum ; and the Vestry have
arranged to pay a yearly rental of £25 for the use of the Offices at 61, Paradise-street.
Messrs. Brass and Son, in lieu of extending their Wharf, Trinity-street, out about 90-feet
into the River, as at first proposed, have built their new river wall only about three-feet
beyond the original line of Wharfing, and have not in any manner interfered with the parish
Rights of Way on either side thereof.
Mr. James Naylor has completed his new Wharf, Rotherhithe-street, and continued the
adjoining parish Right of Way out level with the same, to the satisfaction of the Vestry.
In April last the Vestry caused notices to be served upon the Owners of certain of the
waterside premises in this parish, to repair and heighten their Wharves and River Walls, to
prevent inundation from the River ; they also, for the same purpose, caused the Wharfing and
approaches to the Platform Stairs, King Stairs, Pageant's Stairs, the Right of Way, Trinitystreet
(Laystall) and the Dog and Duck Stairs to be raised and repaired.
APPENDIX No. 1.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
From 1st April, 1868, to 31st March, 1869,
The Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, Surrey.
Gentlemen,
The former annual report which I submitted to you, contained a brief and imperfect
sketch of the progress of sanitary knowledge, and of the gradual development of legislation,
having for its object the improvement of the public health ; since that period two enactments
have been added to those already in existence, the Workshops Regulation Act, and an Act to
provide better dwellings for Artizans and Labourers; in this locality these Acts of Parliament
may not be often called into operation, but in some other districts their exercise may have a
very beneficial influence.
On the present occasion the statement I have to present to you is not quite so favorable
as that for the former year, inasmuch as the births have diminished and the deaths increased ;
the depression in some branches of trade may reasonably account for this undesirable condition
of things; in prosperous times marriages are more numerous than when employment is scarce,
By Cash paid for Bread, viz.:—
£ | s. | d. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Colls | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Lungley | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Kilian | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Farmer | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Fountain | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Colls | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Kelsey | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Lungley | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Matthes | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Rule | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Appleton | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Cartwright | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
Toms | 10 | 16 | 0 | |||
140 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Bennett's Charity, distributed in 1s. Tickets | 9 | 0 | 0 | |||
Coat and Cloak Charity, distributed at Christmas | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
Mrs. Embleton's Charity, distributed on St. Thomas's day | 5 | 0 | 10 | |||
Hill and Bell's Charity, Treasurer of Charity School | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
£163 | 8 | 10 | ||||
Balance in the hands of Churchwardens | 19 | 13 | 0 | |||
£183 | 1 | 10 |