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For the half-year to Lady-day, 1890.
A Poor Rate of 1s. 6d. including a Library Rate of 1d.
in the £, estimated to realize nett £25,200
A Sewer Rate 1d. ,, „ ,, 1,400
A Lighting Rate 2d. ,, ,, ,, 2,800
A General Rate 1s. 1d. ,, ,, „ 18,400
2s. 10d. £47,800
The rates made in April, for the half-year to
Michaelmas, were based upon a rateable value of
£360,797, and those made in October, for the halfyear
to Lady-day, upon a rateable value of £362,430.
The amounts required by the Guardians of the
Holborn Union were £26,109 in the first, and
£25,246 in the second half-year, total ,£51,355 (the
average for 14 years previous to the amalgamation
of Clerkenwell with the Holborn Union, when
Clerkenwell managed its own poor under the Local
Act, being £28,093, the highest year being £34,534).
The Parish of Clerkenwell received from the
Common Poor Fund, £4,959 19s. Od. and £5,463
15s. Od. in the first and second half-years respectively.
A Metropolitan Consolidated Rate of 2½d. in the
£ was made in the first half-year to provide for the
Precept of the Metropolitan Board of Works, for
the three months ending March 31st, 1889,
amounting to £3,772 17s. 3d.
The amounts above stated as being required by
the Guardians of the Holborn Union include the
Precepts of the London County Council, whose
rate is now collected in the Poor Rate, whereas the
requirements of the Metropolitan Board of Works
were raised by a separate rate called the Metropolitan
Consolidated Rate. The Council's precepts
in respect of the Parish of Clerkenwell were
£10,909 6s. 4d. in the first, and £7,790 4s. 8d. in
the second half-year. Under the Local Government