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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St James's 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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The payments to Central Authorities last year amounted
to £7,446 2s. 2d. more than for the previous year,
and it will be seen that of the total sum raised under
the name of local rates, a very small proportion is applicable
to strictly local expenditure, no less than £81,282
2s. 7d. of the total of £129,613 1s. Od. having been
paid over during the year to various Authorities over
whose expenditure the Vestry and other Parochial
Boards have no control. The efforts of the Vestry
to reduce the rates bv an economical administration in
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The following is a statement of the sums paid to Metropolitan and County Authorities from the rates of this Parish during each of the two preceding years:-
| 1882-3. | 1883-4. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Metropolitan Asylums District | 8,900 | 0 | 0 | 8,714 | 10 | 7 |
| Central London Sick Asylum | 3,550 | 0 | 0 | 3,242 | 0 | 0 |
| Metropolitan Common Poor Fund | 7,750 | 0 | 0 | 6,891 | 2 | 9 |
| Police | 13,532 | 9 | 10 | 14,145 | 4 | 8 |
| County and Lunatic Asylums Rates | 4,168 | 2 | 0 | 4,189 | 2 | 2 |
| Expenses of School Board | 16,465 | 16 | 2 | 19,074 | 14 | 10 |
| Expenses of Metropolitan Board of Works | 17,613 | 17 | 5 | 17,583 | 5 | 5 |
| £71,980 | 5 | 5 | £73,840 | 0 | 5 | |
The total amount raised with the local rates for these two
Boards alone, during the ten years, is £288,369, being an
average of £28,836 per annum. These precepts, which, in
the year 1875-6, represented a rate of 7¾d. in the pound,
had increased to a rate of 1s. 2¼d. in the pound in 1884-5,
and in actual amount have more than doubled in ten years.
The precepts for the year 1885-6 show a further increase of
£2,691 in the demand of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
and £2,173 in that of the School Board for London.
The increase in these two precepts represents an
addition of 2d. in the pound to the rates for the year
1885-6.