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Rotherhithe 1871

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Table: Sewers Account, One Year ending 25th March, 1872.

Sewers Account, One Year ending 25th March, 1872.

£s.d.£s.d.
To Cash Balance at 1st Audit1338311¼By Paid Salaries, one year41000
„ Received from Overseers, on Account of Sewers Rates210000„ Commission5701
„ Received for putting in drains32449„ The Metropolitan Board of Works Precept198134
„ Interest on current Account, with London and Westminster Bank578„ Interest on Loans4000
„ Rent of surface over Sewers50„ Vestry of Bermondsey contribution towards cost of Sewer, West Lane1800
#„ Labour, one year385190
„ Cartage, „4708
„ General Drainage Works (Woolnough)265178
„ Sewers Repayments1265
„ Tradesmen's Bills, &c52118
32691810
By Lent Paving Account409124½
„ Balance in hand88101¾
49826¼
£3,76814¼£376814¼
« Loan Sinking Fund Account, One Year ending March 25th, 1872.
£s.d.£s,d
To Balance at Bank374194By two annual Amounts of £200 set aside to pay off two Loans of £1500 each, borrowed of Messrs. Dannell and Talbot, for Paving Purposes40000
„ Two annual Amounts of £80 set aside to pay off two Loans of £600 and £200, borrowed respectively of Messrs. Talbot and Dannell, for Sewers Work16000
56000
Less lent, General Account18508
£374194£374194

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A length of 182 feet of 15-inch pipe drain, with man hole and flushing box, has
been laid through Robert Street, Jamaica Level, to Matson Street, to take the drainage
of the new houses erected in the latter street at the cost of the Owner of the Property.
The houses Nos. 9 to 17 both inclusive, Commercial Place, Plough Road, have
been drained by a combined operation into the sewer in Plough Road, at the cost of
the Owners.
Paving Work.
The following materials have been used in repairing the Roads during the year
ended 25th March, 1872, viz.:—
Broken Guernsey Granite
685 cubic yards.
Ditto Bombay Stone
519 „
Ditto Common Stone ...
99 „ „
Gravell
188 „ „
Hoggin
36 „ „
Flints
56 „ „
Granite Sittings
61 „ „
Hard Core for foundation
150 „ „
Slop Carted
5965 ,, ,,
Paving Jobbing Works
Mr. William Ethieridge, of Stanley Terrace, Rotherhithe, obtained the Contract
for the execution of the Paving Jobbing Works, at a schedule prices.
Improvement Works.
The south end of Forsyth Street, has been widened and improved, by the removal
of the projecting Shed and Fence there, and by throwing the site thereof into the
Public Way, at a cost to the Vestry, (including purchase of ground, making up road
and paving the footways) of £49 8 3.