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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REPORT OF THE VESTRY CLERK.
Gentlemen,
During the year ending Lady-day, 1882, the amount
collected on the Poor's Rate was £66,358 8s. 9d.; the amount in
the pound levied for the four quarters was 2s. 5d., being for the
quarter to Midsummer, 8d.; to Michaelmas, 7d.; to Christmas,
7d.; and to Lady-day, 7d.
During the previous year the Poor Rate was 2s. 2d.
The amount of the Guardians' Calls for the year ending Ladyday,
1881, was £43,590; and for the last year, £51,500 ; and for
the half-year, Lady-day to Michaelmas, 1882, is £32,000.
The amount owiug to the Guardians at Lady-day. 1882,
was nil.
Further particulars of the expenditure of Poor Rate will be
found in the Balance Sheets, as audited and signed.
SEWERS AND GENERAL RATES.
The statement hereto appended will give the details of the
Receipts and Expenditure on account of the Sewers and General
Rates. It is only necessary here to state that the rates levied for
the last year were—
s. d.
General—in the £ 2 0
Sewers ditto 0 6
2 6