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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

Clerkenwell 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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Table: The following Analysis of the County Council'sRates is taken from the Council's Annual Report:—

The following Analysis of the County Council's

Rates is taken from the Council's Annual Report:—

d.
(1) Services of the County Council15.38
(2) Services of the Local Authorities paid out of the County Fund.
(i.) Payment to the Guardians of the Poor of charges formerly paid for out of Imperial Funds. This is a relief of local poor rates -3.78
(ii.) Payment to the Guardians of the Poor of 4d. per head per day for indoor paupers.This is a relief of local poor rates
(iii.) Payment to Overseers of the Poor of portion of Registration expenses and for drowned bodies. This is a relief of local poor rates
(iv.) Payment to Vestries and District Boards of one-half of the Salaries of Medical Officers and of portion of cost of main roads. This is a relief of general poor rates.
(v.) Payment to the Common Council of the City of London for maintenance of pauper lunatics
Net amount required for the year19.16
Receipt from the Exchequer Contribution (license and probate duties and beer and spirit duties)3.65
Balances brought forward1.51
5.16
Amount of rata levied14.00

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A penny rate over the whole county produced to the Council in
1898-99 a sum of about £152,400.
Metropolitan Board Precepts.—A list of the
Precepts of the Metropolitan Board of Works, since
the passing of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, 1855, to the coming into force of the Local
Government Act, 1888, in March, 1889, will be
found in previous reports.