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Rotherhithe 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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The Loan of £3,300 borrowed in the year 1875 of the Atlas Assurance Company,
for paving the footways of the main roads, was paid off in June, 1885.
£990 have been paid off the further Loan of 2,200 borrowed in the year 1876 of
the Atlas Assurance Company, for paving the carriageway at Broadway, Paradise-street
also the carriageway Church-street from Paradise-street to Elephant-lane, leaving £1210
to be repaid by eleven annual instalments of £110, with interest at the rate of £4 os.
per cent, per annum
£252 have been paid off the Loan of £2,100 borrowed in August, 1880 of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, towards repaying the expenses of the purchase of the
ground required for the improvement of liotherhithe-street at the Gas Works, and at
Carolina VVharf; leaving £1848 to be repaid by 44 consecutive annual instalments of
£42 each, with interest at the rate of £3 15s per cent, per annum.
£1928 lis. 3d. has been paid off the Loan of £2,700 borrowed in January, 1880,
of Mr. Reuben Henry Williams, for defraying the cost of paving works executed in
Union road, Deptford Lower-road, Rotherhithe New-road, Plough-road, and Commercial
Dock-road ; leaving £771 8s. 9d. to be repaid by two annual instalments, with interest
at the rate of £4 4s. 6d. per cent, per annum.
£400 has been paid off the Loan of £2,000 borrowed in November, 1881, of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, towards defraying the expense of paving the carriageways
and footways, Rotherhithe-street, at the Gas Works and Carolina Wharf, leaving
£1,600 to be repaid by 16 consecutive annual instalments of £100 each on the 31st day
of October in each year, with interest at the rate of £3 15s. per cent, per annum.
£180 has been paid off the Loan of £1,800 borrowed in November, 1883, of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, towards defraying the expenses of paving Commercial
Dock-road from the Engineers Office, Surrey Commercial Docks, to the east corner of
Elgar-street; leaving £1,620 to be repaid by 18 consecutive annual instalments of £90
each on the 1st day of October in each year, with interest at the rate of £3 10s. per
cent, per annum.
In July, 1885, £240 was borrowed of the Metropolitan Board of Works, towards
defraying a portion ol the expense of the purchase of a house No. 69, Abbey field-road
for the formation, on the site thereof, of a passage way from the said Abbeyfield-road to
the \\ icket Gate Entrance to Southwark Park, in Dilston-grove ; to be repaid by 30
consecutive annual instalments on the 1st day of April in each year, each of the first
ten of such instalments to be the sum of £9, and each of the remaining twenty of such
instalments to be the sum of £8, the first of such annual instalments to be paid on the
l>t da) ol April, 1886, with interest at the rate of £3 10s. per cent, per annum.
Charity Estates, &c.
The accounts of Messrs. Robert Foottit and Joseph Blake Oake, 1885-86, have
been audited, and the following is a copy of the Charities Account, viz.:—