London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Shoreditch 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

This page requires JavaScript

9
THE CARRIAGE WAYS OF THE PARISH.
The cost of the Materials that have been used for the maintenance
and repairs of the unpaved Carriage ways of the roads and streets in the
parish, for the year ending 25th March, 1860, amounted to the sum
of £2462 3s. 1d.
There has also been the sum of £710 19s. 5d. expended in Paving,
maintaining and keeping in repair the paved roads and streets in the
parish.
THE FOOTWAYS OF THE PARISH.
The cost of New Paving, and re-laying and repairing the old footways
in the parish, has amounted during the past year to the sum of
£2387 1s. 3d. which includes the tooled stone supplied by the Contractor.
PROCEEDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN CARRIED INTO EFFECT BY
THE VESTRY, FOR THE REMOVAL OF NUISANCES, AND
THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
THE PARISH.
THE MEDICAL OFFICER REPORTS AS FOLLOWS :
The terms of the Metropolis Local Management Act,
require the presentment of an Annual Report in June, bringing down
the history of the operations of the Vestry to the Twenty-fifth day of
March. The Registrar-General's tables refer to the usual civil year.
It is therefore essential that the statistical tables of a District should deal
with the like period, in order that we may compare the health-movement
of the District during any given year with former years, and with that of
the general population during the special year under examination. To