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Rotherhithe 1876
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY.
SUMMARY STATEMNT, ONE YEAR ENDING 25th MARCH, 1877.
| £ | s. | d | £ | s. | d. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Cash received from Overseers on Account of Paving Rates | 13050 | 0 | 0 | Balance on 25th March, 1876 | 560 | 2 | 10¼ |
| „ Contributions Cost Paving Rebecca Terrace | 49 | 0 | 0 | By Paid Salaries | 716 | 9 | 4 |
| „ „ „ Henwood Road | 83 | 18 | 6 | „ Commission | 344 | l6 | 4 |
| „ „ „ Corbetts Lane | 74 | 6 | 3 | „ Rent of Vestry Offices | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| „ „ „ Nelldale Road | 3 | 13 | 4 | „ Rent of Surveyor's Office | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| „ „ „ Pedworth Road | 89 | 18 | 0 | „ Rent of Stone Yard | 47 | 15 | 0 |
| „ „ „ Abbeyfield Road | 480 | 14 | 3 | „ Paving Jobbing Works | 620 | 5 | 11 |
| „ „ „ Napier Terrace | 16 | 11 | 4 | „ „ Footways of Main Roads | 155 | 0 | 0 |
| „ „ „ Cranbam Road | 208 | 16 | 3 | „ „ Carriageway, Rotherhithe Street (balance) | 307 | 17 | 0 |
| „ „ „ Warndon Sreet | 131 | 3 | 0 | „ „ Corbetts Line | 97 | 0 | 0 |
| „ „ „ Aspinden Road | 10 | 2 | 6 | „ „ Church Street | 2148 | 1 | 3 |
| „ „ „ Tissington Street | 172 | 4 | 0 | „ „ Warndon Street | 205 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Loan of Atlas Assurance Company for Paving | 2200 | 0 | 0 | „ „ Abbeyfield Road | 215 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Interest on Current Account with London and Westminster Bank | 4 | 0 | 0 | „ „ Tissington Street | 199 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Metroplitan Board of Works Contribution towards Cost of Improvement at King and Queen Granary and Bull Head Wharf Rotherhithe Street | 355 | 0 | 0 | „ London School Board Expenses | 1858 | 6 | 6 |
| „ Day Labour | 948 | 7 | 3¼ | ||||
| „ Cartage | 939 | 5 | 10 | ||||
| „ Sundry Contributions | 67 | 12 | 6 | „ Broken Stone for roads | 818 | 12 | 10 |
| „ Watering roads | 714 | 17 | 2½ | ||||
| 16996 | 19 | 11 | „ Loans and Interests | 4417 | 4 | 2 | |
| Balance | 559 | 16 | 2½ | „ Valuation Committee Expenses | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| „ Stationery | 32 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| „ Removing Dust | 725 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| „ Expenses under the Nuisances Removal Act | 12 | 10 | 4 | ||||
| „ Expenses under Adulteration of Food and Drugs Alt | 20 | 4 | 7 | ||||
| „ Legal Expenses re Loans, Lease of Stone Yard, &c. | 52 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| „ Expenses of Ballot for Vestrymen | 13 | 9 | 9 | ||||
| „ Tradesmen's Bills | 282 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| 16 | 1½ | 16 | 1½ |
15 inch pipe sewers have been laid in the following new streets, viz: Cranham
Road (north portion), Westlake Road and Silverlock Street (east end), the cost of
which will be borne by the owners of property in the said streets.
George Wells, the former clerk of the works for sewers having left the service
of the Vestry, advertisements were issued for applications for the situation to be sent
in and on the 11th day of April 1876, James E. Poole was appointed as clerk of the
works in the stead of the said George Wells, at a salary of £2 2s. per week.
The owner of the new property in Luxford Street having appealed to the
Metropolitan Board of Works against an order made by the Vestry with reference
to the drainage of the said street. The appellant applying to have the sewer laid
only partly up the street and objecting to the amount of the estimated cost of the
said drain. Upon the hearing, the Board dismissed the appeal in consequence of the
same not having been made within the time specified in the Act of Parliament.
The owner having subsequently submitted to the Vestry an amended plan for the
drainage of his property in Luxford Street, the Vestry agreed upon payment by the
owner of the estimated cost of the work to lay part only of the said sewer for the
present, which has since been carried out.
An appeal having been made to the Metropolitan Board of Works by Mr. E.
Robson on behalf of the School Board for London, against an order made by the
Vestry that the drainage for the new Board Schools in Suffolk Street should be
carried southward into the low level sewer in lieu of connecting the proposed drains
with the sewer in the rear of Dartmouth Terrace as applied for, the last mentioned
sewer being considered not to be of sufficient capacity to take the drainage of the
said schools Upon the hearing, the Metropolitan Board of Works allowed the
appeal but the School Boaad for London subsequently arranged to drain the Suffolk
Street Schools as ordered by the Vestry, and the Board having paid the sum of
£91 13s 10d. the estimated cost thereof, a 15-inch pipe drain was laid by the
Vestry from the low level sewer in the Rotherhithe Branch Road up to the schools
and the drainage thereof completed.