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Rotherhithe 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Table: Summary Statement, One Year, Ending 25th March, 1874.Paving and General Purposes Account

Summary Statement, One Year, Ending 25th March, 1874.

Paving and General Purposes Account

£s.d.£s.d..
To Balnce on hand 25th, March, 1873133623By paid Salaries viz:- Medical Officer of Health, Clerks, AssistantClerk. Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances65500
„ Cash received from Overseers on account of Paving Rates780000
„ Southwark Water Company for repars of Trenches40610„ Commission205117
„ Kent Water Company26112„ Rent of Vestry Office2500
„ Contributions towards cost of paving Yeoman Street300„ Paving Jobbing Works50896
„ „ „ Croft Street6138„ Paving Deptford Road, (balance)73334
„ „ „ Raymouth Road674106„ Paving Raymouth Road1123190
„ „ „ Aspinden Road215110„ London School Board expenses46396
„ Interest on current Account with London and Westminster Bank1702„ Day Labour81218
„ Sundry Contributions4326„ Cartage63131
„ Broken Stone &c., for Roads80356
10162181„ Watering Roads3381410
„ On Accouut of Loan and Interest (Mr. Barrett)214160
(Mr. R. Lawrence)83477
„ „ „ Eagle Insurance Company98074
„ Interest on Loan Executors of Mr. E. G. Dannell7500
Mr. E. Talbot7500
Borrowed from Lighting Account164„ Income Tax deducted from Interest on Loans719
„ Valuation Committee Expends4500
„ Stationery,&c.32210
„ Removing Dust52600
„ Labour, &c.Disinfecting5168
„ Improvement Rotherhithe Street, at King and Queen Granary, and Bull Head Wharf71000
,, Sanitary and Nuisances Expenses1100
,, New Mortuary in Burial Ground125176
„ Tradesmen's Bills, &c.230179
£10163145£10163145

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A length of 556 feet of 12 inch pipe sewer has been laid in Rotherhithe Street,
from Clarence Street to the Surrey Consumers Gas Works, the Gas Company having
contributed £60 towards the cost thereof (£125 19s.).
248 feet of 12 inch pipe sewer has been laid in Rotherhithe Street, near the King
and Queen Granary, and one new Gulley provided at a cost of £65 1s. 4d.
196 feet of 15 inch pipe sewer has been laid in Cranham Road, Rotherhithe New
Road, at a cost of £84 4s. 2d. which will be borne by the Owners of the houses in
the said Road.
At the request of the East London Railway Company a 3 feet by 2 feet brick
sewer, 560 feet in length,. with the necessary gullies &c., has been constructed by the
Vestry's Contractor in Oldfield Road, the cost of which amounting to £861 12s. 7d.
the Railway Company have paid.
A 15 inch pipe sewer 450 feet in length with the necessary gullies, man holes, &c.
has been laid in Aspinden Road, the cost of which amounting to £203 2s. 8d. will be
borne by the Owners of property in the Road, the Vestry having agreed to
take payment by instalments as follows, viz.—One half of such cost before the
works were commenced, one fourth in six months and the remaining one fourth, in twelve
months from the commencement of the work.
Paving Work.
The following materials have been used in repairing the Roads during the year
ended 25th March 1874, viz.—
Broken Guernsey Granite 656 cubic yards.
Ditto Bombay Stone 52 „
Ditto Common Stone 99 „
Granite Sittings 134 „
Flints 30
Gravel and Hoggin 112 „
Slop and Snow Carted 7968 Loads.

Table: Lighting Account, One Year, ending 25th March, 1874.

Lighting Account, One Year, ending 25th March, 1874.

£s.d.£s.d.
To Balance on 25th March 187379163¾By paid Lighting one Year161397
„ Cash received from Overseers on Account of Lighting Rates160000_ Commission4201
„ Interest on Account with London and Westminster Bank6136Lent Paving Account164
„ „ Sundry Contributions2130Balnace in hand321691
83131¾
£168929¾£168929¾