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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 Martin-in-the-Fields 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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| Receipt | Payment | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883-4. | £ | s. | d. | 1883-4. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| To Balance from last Account | 91 | 11 | 10 | Nov. 3. By Cash Paid Treasurer of Guardians | 597 | 16 | 5 | ||||||
| Cash of Messrs. Dangerfield and Blythe, for Fines repaid by Treasury in aid of Costs incurred in Prosecuting Disorderly Houses | 86 | 10 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Dec. 1. do. do. | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| ,, 17. do. do. | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Jan. 21. do. do. | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| ,, Cash received from the Churchwardens and Overseers—Half-year's Dividend on Workhouse Fund | 511 | 2 | 4 | ,, 26. do. do. | 1,693 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Feb. 22. do. do. | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| ,, Cash received from Poor Kate, made 18th Oct., 1883. viz.:— | Mar. 8. do. do. | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| ,, 25. do. do. | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| ,, 25. do. do. | 115 | 11 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Mr. Cook, No. 1 Ward | 8,071 | 14 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 14,406 | 7 | 11 | |||||||||||
| ,, Greenfield ,, 2 ,, | 3,802 | 7 | 3 | ||||||||||
| „ Marshall ,, 3 ,, | 6,798 | 13 | 2 | Jan. 21. Police Rate | 2,157 | 18 | 3 | ||||||
| Feb. 2. „ „ | 2,157 | 18 | |||||||||||
| 18,672 | 15 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4,315 | 16 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Jan. 22. Messrs. Warrington, Printing, Stamps and Stationery | 17 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Nov. 3. Commissioners of Baths and Washhouses | 300 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| ,, 3. Borough Registration | 83 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||||
| County do. | 12 | 18 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Jury List | 40 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mar.13. High Bailiff of Westminster | 40 | 17 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 177 | 13 | « | |||||||||||
| Nov.13. Mr. W. S. Cross, Surveys for Assessment | 30 | 19 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Feb. 25. Messrs. Dangerfield and Blythe, Costs of Prosecutions | 111 | 19 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Jan.26. Messrs. Isaacson's Justices Clerks' Fees | 1 | 8 | 6 | ||||||||||
| £19,361 | 19 | 6 | £19,361 | 19 | 6 | ||||||||
This is the lowest number of Births during the
last ten years. The Registrar-General, in his Annual
Summary for the year 1883, says:—"The births
registered in London in the year (52 weeks) numbered
133,656, and were in the proportion of 339
to 1,000 inhabitants. This was the lowest birth-rate
recorded since 1860, in which year the rate was only
33.6. The lowness of the birth-rate was more than
compensated by the still greater reduction of the
death-rate; for the registered births exceeded the