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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SIXTEENTH GENERAL REPORT
OF THE
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHlTHE,
SURREY,
For the Year ending 25th March.
1872.
During the past year the Vestry has held eighteen General and Special Meetings,
and eighteen Committee Meetings.
£ | s | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
To Cash received from Overseers on Account of Lighting Rates | 6250 | 0 | 0 | By Repaid Amount Borrowed from Sewers Account | 419 | 17 | |
„ Southwark Water Company for repairs to Trenches | 122 | 14 | 4 | „ Paid Salaries, viz.—Medical Officer of Health, Clerk's, Assistant Clerk, Surveyor's, and Inspector of Nuisances, one year | 755 | 0 | |
„ Kent Water Company for repairs to Trenches | 18 | 18 | 1 | ||||
„ Contributions towards cost of paving Gomm Road | 25 | 19 | 5 | „ Commission ditto | 5 | ||
„ Maynard Road | 32 | 0 | 9 | „ Rent of Vestry Offices ditto | 25 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ „ William Street | 8 | 8 | „ Paving and Jobbing Works ditto | 16 | |||
„ „ „ Yeoman Street | 33 | 7 | 9 | „ For Paving Croft Street | 19 | ||
„ „ „ Cross Street | 15 | „ V estry of Bermondsey contribution towards Urinal, Jamaica Level | 90 | 13 | |||
3 | 0 | 0 | „ Legal Expenses | 16 | 6 | ||
20 | 0 | 0 | „ London School Board Expenses | 270 | |||
„ Perambulation Expenses | 50 | 0 | |||||
„ Sundry Contributions | 55 | 17 | 10 | „ Day Labour | 751 | 13 | 8 |
„ Cartage | 660 | ||||||
6585 | 10 | 7 | „ Broken Stone for Roads | 662 | 19 | 0 | |
„ Watering Roads | 380 | 9 | |||||
409 | 12 | 4½ | |||||
„ Repaid on Account of Loan and Interest (Mr. J. W. Barrett) | 243 | 17 | 6 | ||||
„ „ „ „ (Mr. R. Lawrence) | 876 | 14 | 4 | ||||
„ Paid Interest on Loan (Mr. E. G. Dannell) | 75 | ||||||
„ „ „ (Mr. E. lalbot) | 75 | 0 | |||||
„ „ Income Tax, deducted from Interest on Loans | 24 | 19 | |||||
„ „ Valuation Committee Expense | 30 | 0 | 0 | ||||
„ „ Gravel, Flints, and Hoggin | 248 | 17 | 0 | ||||
„ „ Stationery, &c | 32 | 19 | |||||
„ „ Removing Dust | 465 | 0 | 0 | ||||
„ „ Cost of Erecting Disinfecting Apparatus | 120 | 0 | 0 | ||||
„ „ „ Working ditto ditto | 13 | 18 | 11 | ||||
„ „ Sanitary Expenses, viz:—Removing Nuisanccs, Disinfecting „ „ Rooms, &c | 57 | 10 | 8 | ||||
„ „ Gratuities | 63 | 0 | 0 | ||||
„ „ Tradesmens Bills, &c | 186 | 8 | 4 | ||||
£6995 | 119 | £6,995 | 2 | 114 | |||
1750 | 0 | 205 | 2 | ||||
10 | „ Paid Lighting | 4 | |||||
7 | 6 | ||||||
£1753 | 5 | 4 | 1,466 | 1¾ | |||
9 | 2¼ | ||||||
One side entrance, 3 air and flushing shafts, 8 gullies, 11 gratings, and one flap
have also been formed and constructed, the cost of which in detail is shown in the
General Abstract, on page 7 hereof.
The following is a statement of applications made to the Vestry to drain houses
and premises, and the results consequent thereon.
Number of
Notices
received.
No. of houses
permanently
drained
into covered
Sewers.
No. of New
houses
temporarily
drained
into Cesspools.
Buildings and
premises
other than
houses
drained.
House Drains
Cleared.
Tota 1 Number
uses
and Buildings
inspected for
drainage.
49
64
13
8
5
80