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Shoreditch 1888

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

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2. Estimate of the Contribution required from the Parishes throughout
the county on the General County Account—
The Charges on the Account are as follows:
(a) Transferred from the Metropolitan Board of Works
The expenditure for the Quarter
ending 31st March, 1889, for
services chargeable on the General
County Account was estimated at
£299,804, or, per annum £1,199,216
&.dd further Interest payable on New
Loans for Improvements now in
process 18,000
Also increased expenditure on
Sewerage and Drainage, Parks and
other Services, and new expenditure
for Woolwich Ferry 20,320
1,237,536
(b) Transferred from the counties of Middlesex,
Surrey, and Kent, including the City (for
Criminal Prosecutions).'
Costs in respect of Criminal Prosecutions, Quarter
Sessions, Justices' Clerks, Registration of
Voters, Bridges, Prison Pensions &c. . 42,681
(c) Main Roads, cost of Maintenance—
Hackney district £1,044
Limehouse district 974
Mile End Old Town, hamlet 516
Poplar district ,, 1,990
St. George-in-the-East, parish 398
St. John's, Hampstead, parish 1,876
St. Mary Abbot's Kensington, parish 80
St. Mary, Islington, parish 240
7,118
(d) Indoor Paupers, Grants to Guardians at 4d. per
head per day for Indoor Paupers maintained
in each Uuion. So far as yet ascertained the
charge on the County will be 335,000
(e) Costs of the Election of County Councillors in
January, 1889, as stated by the Returning
Officer 13,713
(f) Amount inserted for Contingent Expenditure 20,000
Carried forward £1,656,048