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Rotherhithe 1877

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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improvements, I am directed to inform you that the Board has carefully considered the
question of the order in which the various improvements authorised by the Act of last
session should be carried out, and that it has been resolved to proceed in the first
instance with the improvements at Islington, Hackney, Deptford Bridge, Camberwell
and Peckham, and immediately after them to proceed with the Tooley Street and
Jamaica Road improvements.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) J. E. WAKEFIED,
Clerk of the Board.
The Clerks of the Vestry of Rotherhithe,
Paradise Street, S.E.
The Vestry appointed a Deputation consisting of Messrs. Robert Foottit, Henry
Hay ward, Edward John Cox, James Powell, Edward James Talbot, Robert Allen and
Thomas William Clarke, to present a Memorial to the Metropolitan Board of Works
urging upon that Board, the pressing necessity for increased means of communication
between the north and south sides of the River Thames, at a point below London
Bridge, and on the 19th of October, 1877, the said Deputation in conjunction with
Deputations from the Whitechapel District Board of Works and the Vestry of
St. George's-in-the-East attended and presented the said Memorial to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, when the Deputations were informed that the subject would be
referred to that Board's Works and General Purposes Committee for consideration.
The attention of the Vestrv having been called to a Bill to consolidate, and amend
...
the law relating to the Public Health in the Metropolis which was introduced into the
House of Commons by the President of the Local Government Board, during the
session of 1877, in which were certain clauses which appeared to place the Vestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis under the control of the Local Government Board,
in the exercise of their functions as the sanitary authorities of their respective districts.
The Vestry solicited the co-opertion of the Members of Parliament for the Borough of
Southwark and for the County of Surrey, in opposing the objectionable clauses in the
said bill, which was ultimately withdrawn from Parliament.
Messrs. Robert Foottit, James Powell, and Henry Hayward were appointed by the
Vestry as a Deputation to attend a conference of representatives of Vestries and
District Boards, at the Lambeth Vestry Hall, Kennington Green, on the subject of the
provisions of "The County Government Bill," the Deputation attended such conference
on the 21st March, 1878, when the following resolutions were passed, viz.:—

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Brought forward£16340
Bv cash Printing tickets for ditto086
,, Mrs. Embleton's Gift5100
„ Two years Chief Bent in respcet of Land at Stratford and Plaistow0610
,, Bread ticket016
„ Coat and Cloak Charity distributed at Christmas600
17518
Balance25198
£20114