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Rotherhithe 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Table: VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERIIITHE, LONDON. Summary Statement. One Year ending 55th March, 1892.Paving and General Purposes Account.

VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERIIITHE, LONDON. Summary Statement. One Year ending 55th March, 1892.

Paving and General Purposes Account.

£s.d.£s.d.
To Balance on 25th March, 18913,329106¾By Salaries6981011
„ Cash from Overseers of the Poor, on account of Paving Rates20,11100„ Commission26920
„ Rents, Rates, and Taxes15545
„ Interest on current account with London and Westminster Bank20132„ Paving Jobbing Works1,278711
,, Day Labour2,106162
„ Contributions from Owners towards Paving New Streets121148,, Cartage1,5541210
„ Broken Stone, &c., for Roads421170
„ The Metropolitan Asylums Board, return of Fees paid by the Vestry to Medical Practitioners under the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act44100„ Watering Roads90193
„ Loans Repaid and Interest1,767141
„ Valuation Committee Expenses1500
„ Removing Dust1,256170
„ Fees received under Canal Boats' Act0100„ Printing, Stationery, &c.89140
„ Rents under Agreements6160,, Expenses under Sale of Food Act1640
„ Sundry Contributions1491„ Expenses under Nuisances Removal and Public Health (London) Act, 189112634
,. Amount overpaid into Bank028
„ London School Board Precept9,350187
„ Expenses of Ballot for Vestrymen5578
„ Galvanised Iron Dust Pails5146
,, Expenses under Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act42196
,, Expenses under Canal Boats'Act110
„ School Board Election Expenses64011
,, Planting Trees, &c.15396
„ Paving Railway Avenue32000
,, Paving Suffolk Street3061711
„ Amount overpaid for paving Railway Avenue returned25113
„ Hill and Bell's Charity600
,, Tradesmen's Bills, &c.53969
£20,718106
Balance2,930157¾
£23,64961¾£23,64961¾

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The following applications for the erection and drainage of new Houses and Buildings
have also been checked and approved:—
Number
of
Notices,
Number
of
Houses.
Additions
to
Houses.
Other
Buildings.
Total Number
of New
Buildings.
26
6
17
11
34
Messrs. Hoare & Son, of 74, Blackfriars Road, are the Contractors for Sewers Jobbing
Works, as per Schedule of prices. (For particulars of Contract see page 9).
Complaints having been made as to the inefficiency of the Sewer between Neston Street and
Dodds Place, into which certain houses and premises in Eotherhithe Street were drained, the
Vestry instructed the Surveyor of Sewers to report as to the cost of taking up the old barrel
drain and laying a 12-inch pipe Sewer in Concrete with the necessary manholes in lieu thereof.
The Surveyor of Sewers subsequently submitted an estimate from Messrs. John Hoare & Son,
the Vestry's Contractors, at the sum of £146, which was accepted, and the work has been
carried out.
The London County Council having written to the Vestry stating it had occurred to them in
considering the question of Sewer ventilation, that its efforts in that direction would be greatly