London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Rotherhithe 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
This page requires JavaScript
28
The Vestry having had under consideration a letter received from the Vestry Clerk of
St. Mary, Islington, calling attention to the re-introduction of the ''Hyde Park Corner
(New Streets) Bill," the object of which was to cast a moiety of the cost of the
maintenance of Streets stated to form part of the Parishes of Sf. Martin-in-the-Fields,
and St. George, Hanover Square, upon the other Parishes of the Metropolis, and stating
the Vestry of Islington had resolved to petition against the Bill ; it was
Resolved, that this Vestry support the action taken by the Vestry of Islington
in the matter.
The Valuation (Metropolis Act, 1869.
Under the provisions of the above Act, the total assessment of properties in the
parish of Rotherhithe, is as follows, viz :—
Gross Value. Ratable Value.
£255,696 0s. 0d. 1206,319 0s. 0d.