[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. ACCOUNT IN ABSTRACT. Shewing the Receipts and Expenditure for One Year ending March, 1877, under the "Metropolis Local Management Act," 18 th and 19 th Victoria, cap. 120.

RATE.	Cash Balance at commencement of Year.						RECEIPTS DURING THE YEAR.															PAYMENTS DURING THE YEAR.																					Cash Balance on the 25th March, 1877.
	In Credit			In Debit			Rates, &c.			Contributions &c.			Loans, &c.			Incidentals.			Total.			Assessm'nt by Metropolitan Bd. of Works			Works.			Establishment.			Loans, &c.			Watering.			Lighting.			Total.			In Credit.			In Debit.
	£	s.	d	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d..	£	s.	d	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c, for Special and General Works. Year ending 25 th March, 1877.

Psving and General Purposes Rate.	Paving.						Lighting.			Watering.			Cleansing and Repairing Roads and Footpaths			Improving.			Removing Dust.			Total.
Psving and General Purposes Rate.	Footway.			Carriageway.			Lighting.			Watering.			Cleansing and Repairing Roads and Footpaths			Improving.			Removing Dust.			Total.

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vestry of the parish of rotherhithe, surrey. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., for Special and General Works. Year ending 25th March, 1877.

Lighting Rate.		Lighting.			Contributions.			Commission.												Sundries.			Total.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OK ROTHERHITHE. SURREY. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., Special and General Works. Year ending 25 th March, 1877.

Construction																											Repair and alterations to sewers,Gulleys &c.	Cleaning includeing flushing ???	In??? works	Improvement works	Total cost
BRICK SEWERS, Size.	COST.			PIPE SEWERS. STONEWARE. Size.								COST.					Openings to Sewers.
BRICK SEWERS, Size.	COST.			PIPE SEWERS. STONEWARE. Size.													Side Entrance.	Air &lush ing Shafts.	Gullies	Drain Mout???	Flap???	COST
					18 in.	15 in.	12 in.	9 in.	6 in.	4 in.							Side Entrance.	Air &lush ing Shafts.	Gullies	Drain Mout???	Flap???	COST
	£	s.	d.		feet.	feet.	feet.	feet.	feet.	feet.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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vestry of the parish of rotherhithe, surrey. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ALL CONTRACTS Entered into by the Vestry in the Year ending 25th March, 1877, and of all Contracts subsisting at the commencement of that year and continued during the same, and of the Works commenced and completed in the Year ending 25th March, 18 77, and the Works remaining in progress at the termination of the year. CONTRACTS FOR, THE PERFORMANCE OF SPECIAL WORKS.

Rate.	Date of Contract.	Locality.	Name of Contractor.	Nature of Works to be performed.	Contract Prices.									. Quantity of work commenced and completed during the Year.			Amount of extra and additional Works.			Amount of deductions and omissions from Contract.			Actual Cost of Works.
Rate.	Date of Contract.	Locality.	Name of Contractor.	Nature of Works to be performed.	Contract Sum.			Amount provided for extras.			Total.			. Quantity of work commenced and completed during the Year.			Amount of extra and additional Works.			Amount of deductions and omissions from Contract.			Actual Cost of Works.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. CONTRACTS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF GENERAL WORKS AND SUPPLY OF MATERIALS. Subsisting at the commencement of, or entered into during the Year ending 25th March, 1877.

Rates, &c..	Date ofContract	Name of Party with whom Contract was made.	Nature of Works to be performed, and Materials to be supplied.	Observations.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY Statement and Account of all Arrears of Rates and other Monies owing to, and of all Mortgages, Debts, and Liabilities owing by the Vestry on the 25th March, 1 877.

Moneys owing to the Vestry.																Debts and Liabilities owing by the Vestry.
Rates, &c.	Cash Balance			Due from Overseers on Precepts.			Contributions to be Received.						T otal.			Cash Balance.			Assessment by Metropolitan Board.			Loans, Mortgages, &c.			Estimated value of Compensation Annuities Granted.			¹ Special Contracts outstanding.			Tradesmen's Bills and other obligations not under Special Contracts.			Total.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. SUMMARY STATEMNT, ONE YEAR ENDING 25th MARCH, 1877. Paving and General Purposes Account.

	£	s.	d		£	s.	d.

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SUMMARY STATEMENT— Continued. Lighting Account, One Year ending 25th March , 1877.

	£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.

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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.	Buildings and Premises other than Houses Drained.	Houses Drains Cleared	Total Number of Houes and Buildings inspected for Drainage.

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The following applications for the erection of new houses and buildings have also been received and plans checked and approved.

Number of Notices	Number of Houses.	Additions to Houses.	Warehouses and other Buildings.	Total number of New Buildings.

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Paving Works. The following materials have been used in repairing the roads during the year ended 25th March, 1877, viz:-

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The carriageways and footways of the following new streets have been made up and paved uuder contract as follows, viz:—

STREET.	NAME OF CONTRACTOR.	CONTRACT SUM

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Charity Estates, &c. The accounts of Messrs. Robert Foottit and Edward James Talbot, churchwardens, for the year 1876-77 have been audited, and the following is a copy of the Charities Account, viz:—

			£	s.	d.

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	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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During the last ten years the average annual number of deaths have been 107, and it is noteworthy that notwithstanding some increase of population and the decline of one severe epidermic disease and the activity of another, only ninety two deaths have been registered this year.

Diseases.	1863.	1869.	1870.	1871.	1872.	187S.	1874.	1875.	1876.	1877	Total.

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Births registered during the year in quarterly divisions:—

	Males.	Females.	Total.

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Deaths registered during the year in quarterly divisions:—

	Males.	Females.	Total.

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Comparative number of deaths and rate of mortality during the last three years:—

	No. of deaths.	Corrected Mortality	Rates of Mortality per thousand

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As it is desirable to compare the relative number of deaths according to age, I shall adopt my usual practice to use the returns for the last three years.

	1875.	1870.	1877.

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. First Quarter, from April, 1st, 1876, to June 30th, 1876.

Diseases.	Under 2 Years of Age	2 to 5	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. Second Quarter from July 1st, 1876, to September 30th, 1876.

Diseases	Under 2 Years of age.	2 to 5.	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. Third Quarter from October 1st, 1876, to December 31st, 1876.

Diseases.	Under 2 year of age.	2 to 5	6 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total.

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. Fourth Quarter from January 1st, 1877, to March 31st, 1877.

Diseases.	Under 2 Years of age.	2 to 5	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	Total

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TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. For the whole Year, from April 1st, 1876, to March 31st, 1877

Diseases.	Under 2 years of age.	2 to 5	5 to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to90	90 to 100.	Total.

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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. ACCOUNT IN ABSTRACT. Shewing the Receipts and Expenditure for One Year ending March, 1877, under the "Metropolis Local Management Act," 18 th and 19 th Victoria, cap. 120.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &amp;c, for Special and General Works. Year ending 25 th March, 1877.

vestry of the parish of rotherhithe, surrey. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &amp;c., for Special and General Works. Year ending 25th March, 1877.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OK ROTHERHITHE. SURREY. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &amp;c., Special and General Works. Year ending 25 th March, 1877.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. CONTRACTS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF GENERAL WORKS AND SUPPLY OF MATERIALS. Subsisting at the commencement of, or entered into during the Year ending 25th March, 1877.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY Statement and Account of all Arrears of Rates and other Monies owing to, and of all Mortgages, Debts, and Liabilities owing by the Vestry on the 25th March, 1 877.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. SUMMARY STATEMNT, ONE YEAR ENDING 25th MARCH, 1877. Paving and General Purposes Account.

SUMMARY STATEMENT— Continued. Lighting Account, One Year ending 25th March , 1877.

The following is a statement of applications made to the Vestry to drain houses and premises, and the results consequent thereon:—

The following applications for the erection of new houses and buildings have also been received and plans checked and approved.

Paving Works. The following materials have been used in repairing the roads during the year ended 25th March, 1877, viz:-

The carriageways and footways of the following new streets have been made up and paved uuder contract as follows, viz:—

Charity Estates, &amp;c. The accounts of Messrs. Robert Foottit and Edward James Talbot, churchwardens, for the year 1876-77 have been audited, and the following is a copy of the Charities Account, viz:—

Continued from previous page...

During the last ten years the average annual number of deaths have been 107, and it is noteworthy that notwithstanding some increase of population and the decline of one severe epidermic disease and the activity of another, only ninety two deaths have been registered this year.

Births registered during the year in quarterly divisions:—

Deaths registered during the year in quarterly divisions:—

Comparative number of deaths and rate of mortality during the last three years:—

As it is desirable to compare the relative number of deaths according to age, I shall adopt my usual practice to use the returns for the last three years.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. First Quarter, from April, 1st, 1876, to June 30th, 1876.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. Second Quarter from July 1st, 1876, to September 30th, 1876.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. Third Quarter from October 1st, 1876, to December 31st, 1876.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. Fourth Quarter from January 1st, 1877, to March 31st, 1877.

TABLE OF THE MORTALITY IN ROTHERHITHE. For the whole Year, from April 1st, 1876, to March 31st, 1877

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c, for Special and General Works. Year ending 25 th March, 1877.

vestry of the parish of rotherhithe, surrey. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., for Special and General Works. Year ending 25th March, 1877.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OK ROTHERHITHE. SURREY. GENERAL ABSTRACT OF WORKS. Executed under Contracts, Agreements, &c., Special and General Works. Year ending 25 th March, 1877.

Charity Estates, &c. The accounts of Messrs. Robert Foottit and Edward James Talbot, churchwardens, for the year 1876-77 have been audited, and the following is a copy of the Charities Account, viz:—