Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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6
VESTRY RATES.
The total amount of the rateable value of the property in the
Parish as assessed in the Rate Book at March, 1867, was £322,847.
The following have been the rates made by the Vestry for the year
ending March, 1867:
Sewers Rate.
General Rate.
Main Drainage Rate.
Midsummer
1866
2d ..2588
0
10
4d...5176
1
8
1d...1294
0
5
Michaelmas
1866
1d...1298
9
9
5d...6492
8
0
1d...1298
9
9
Christmas
1866
2d...2631
15
4
5d...6579
8
4
1d...1315
17
8
Lady-day
1867
1d...1345
3
11
6d...8071
3
6
1d...1345
3
11
£7863
9
10
26319
2
3
5253
13
9
MAIN DRAINAGE RATE.
The Vestry on the 3rd day of April, 1866, made a Rate of 4d. in
the pound, to be collected in the four following quarters in equal proportions
of 1d. each quarter, for the purpose of paying the precept issued
by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the sum of £4825 11s 0d.,
that being the proportion to be paid by this parish towards the expenses
of the Board in regard to the works now being carried out for the Main
Drainage of the Metropolis, for the year ending 1st August, 1867.
The Main Drainage Rate Account for the year ending the 25th day
of March, 1867, is as follows:
Balance in hand on the
25th day of March, 1866
4175
4
0
Paid the Metropolitan
Board
4825
11
0
Rate Collected and paid
Treasurer, to
,, Collectors Poundage
123
12
0
Balance in the Treasurers
hands 25th March, 1867
4355
12
1
Midsummer, 1866
1240
12
11
Ditto Michaelmas, 1866
1275
4
9
Ditto Christmas, 1866
1274
5
5
Ditto Lady-day, 1867
1280
7
2
Interest for the year
59
0
10
£9304
15
1
£9304
15
1
The Precept [received from the Metropolitan Board, which is dated the 4th
January, 1867, and will become due on the 24th June, 1867, amounts to the sum of
£5190 9s. 9d., being £1178 10s. 3d. in excess of the amount required last year, and
is towards the General Expenses of the Board for the year 1867. The amount will
have to be paid from the Sewers Rate.