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Rotherhithe 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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| £ | s | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| To Balance on 25th March,1873 | 723 | 9 | 2½ | By paid Salaries, viz:- Medical Officer of Health, Clerks, Asistant Clerks, Surveyor of Payements and Inspector of Nuisances. | 677 | 15 | 4 |
| „ Cash received from Overseers on Account of Paving Rates | 9180 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ Contributions towards cost of Paving Rebbecca Terrace | 47 | 16 | 0 | „ Commission | 241 | 2 | 10 |
| „ ,, Henwood Road | 37 | 1 | 7 | „ Rent of Vestry Office | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| „ „ Aspinden Road | 29 | 6 | G | „ Surveyor's Office | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| . ,, Nelidale Road | 175 | 1 | 8 | „ Stone Yard | 45 | 10 | 0 |
| „ „ Pedworth Road | Ml | 9 | 3 | „ Paring Jobbing Works | 528 | 3 | 6 |
| „ Abbeyfield Road | 548 | 11 | 11 | „ „ Nelldale Road | 310 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Loan of Atlas Insurace Company for Paving | 10,000 | 0 | 0 | „ „ Pedworth Road | 300 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Interest on current Account with London & Westminster Bank | 25 | 6 | 0 | „ „ Mossington Road | 310 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Sundry Contributions | 41 | 9 | 9 | „ „ Rebecca Terrace | 163 | 0 | 0 |
| 20891 | 11 | 10½ | „ „ Abbeyfield Road | 800 | 0 | 0 | |
| Balance | 500 | 2 | 10½ | „ „ Footways of main Roads | 2944 | 11 | 0 |
| s | „ Carriageways Rotherhithe Street and Plough Road | 5536 | 0 | 3 | |||
| „ London School Board expenses | 1784 | 10 | 1 | ||||
| „ Day Labour | 888 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| „ Cartage | 756 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| „ Broken Stone for Roadways | 634 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| „ Watering Roads | 416 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| ,, On account of Loan and Interest (Mr. Barrett) | 204 | 19 | 2 | ||||
| / | „ „ „ (Mr. R. Lawrence) | 789 | 15 | 9 | |||
| „ „ „ (Eagle Insurance Company) | 933 | 17 | 1 | ||||
| „ „ „ (London and Westminster Bank) | 1500 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ Interest on Loan, (Mr. E. Talbot) | 75 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ „ (Mr. E. G . Dannell) | 74 | 7 | 6 | ||||
| „ „ (Atlas Assurance Company) | 210 | 14 | 8 | ||||
| „ Valuation Committee expenses | 60 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ Stationery | 44 | 5 | 11 | ||||
| „ Removing Dust | 650 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ Expenses under the Adulteration of Food, &c. Act | 17 | 0 | 5 | ||||
| ., Legal expenses re Loans, &c. | 188 | 9 | 8 | ||||
| „ Expenses of Visiting Charity Estate* at Stratford and Plaistow | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ Tradesmen's Bills, &c. | 330 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| £21451 | 14 | 9 | £21451 | 14 | 9 |
A pipe sewer 15 inches and 12 inches in diameter has been laid and completed
in Abheyfield Road, and the cost thereof apportioned for payment amongst the owners
of property in the said street.
15 inch pipe sewers have also been laid in the following new streets, viz.—Tissington
Street and Warndon Street, the cost of which will be borne by the owners of
property in the said streets.
The Metropolitan Board of Works having, upon an appeal of Messrs. Smith and
Gale, decided that the drainage of a new street, called Carline Crescent, should be
taken into the sewer in Jamaica Level belonging to the Vestry of Bermondsey, a 12
inch pipe sewer has been laid accordingly in Carline Crescent and Clarehall Place, and
connected with the before-mentioned sewer in Jamaica Level. The owners having
prcviouslv paid to this Vestry the estimated amount of the cost thereof.
10G feet of 12 inch pipe sewer has been laid in Church Street, opposite the "Europa,"
in lieu of an old brick sewer which had been damaged by a gas main belonging to the
Surrey Consumers' Gas Company having been laid through the same; the cost of reinstating
the said sewer has been charged to the Gas Company.
204 feet of 12 in. pipe drain has been laid in Derrick Street and Elgar Street, for
the drainage of the Licensed Victuallers' Dock, and the cost thereof paid by the owners
of the Dock premises.
The Medical Officer of Health having in October, 1875, reported to the Vestrv
upon the offensive state of the open portion of the Karl Sewer at the southern boundarv
of this parish, the Vestry caused a communication to be sent to the Metropolitan Board
of Works on the subject, to which a reply was received to the effect that with the view
of abating the nuisance complained of, the Board had given instructions for a length of
about 200 feet of 15 inch pipe to be laid down forthwith, for the purpose of intercepting
the house drainage passing into such open sewer, as it was found that the principal
cause of the nuisance proceeded from offensive drainage from Mr. Beardsell's Size and
Engine Oil Works being discharged into the sewer through an open channel under the
control of this Vestry. A notice was served upon Mr. Beardsell requiring him to
discontinue draining his premises into such open channel, and he has since laid a 12
inch pipe drain from his works to the sewer in the llotherhithc New Road; the drainage
into the open channel has been cut off and the channel filled up.