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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
Shoreditch 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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| 1,793 | 59,210 | |
| 2,264 | 53,946 | |
| 1,772 | 49,703 | |
| 1,685 | 42,949 | |
| 1,759 | 39,220 |
The Rateable Value of the Parish is made up as follows—
Railways £50,085
Gas Company 28,344
Water Companies 7,350
Tramway Company 2,500
Regent's Canal Company 738
Board Schools 5,412
Hoxton House Asylum 1,000
Theatres and Taverns attached thereto 3,322
The Town Hall 1,000
Other Assessments of £500 and upwards,
including Model Dwellings of that
value 15,875
The Workhouse and Infirmary belonging
to the Holborn Union in the City
Road, is by Local Act rated at £19
only
The Shoreditch Workhouse and Infirmary
is not Assessed.
The total of the above is £115,626, which shows that the
ordinary Assessments, under £500, amount to £473,363.
The new Great Eastern Goods Station, in the Shoreditch High
Street, has not been sufficiently advanced to be brought into
Assessment this year, but is expected to be by Michaelmas next.
In the meantime the Company pays upon the value of the old
Passenger Station, and upon the property removed.