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Southwark 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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9.—Debt, 1933-34.
| Metropolitan borough. | Loans outstanding of metropolitan borough councils at 31st March, 1934. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General rate services. | Electricity supply. | Housing. | Total. | General rate services. | |||||
| Per £ of rateable value. | Per head of population. | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Battersea | 246,311 | 951,705 | 309,996 | 1,508,012 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| Bermondsey | 538,125 | 377,981 | 1,057,793 | 1,973,899 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| Bethnal Green | 237,163 | 163,036 | 346,555 | 746,754 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Camberwell | 87,346 | — | 539,405 | 626,751 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | |
| Chelsea | 25,378 | — | 128,680 | 154,058 | 5 | 8 | 7 | ||
| Deptford | 130,347 | _ | 265,766 | 396,113 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Finsbury | 234,924 | - | 343,555 | 578,479 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| Fulham | 100,188 | 1,579,863 | 276,066 | 1,956,117 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 6 | |
| Greenwich | 287,653 | — | 727,097 | 1,014,750 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 10 |
| Hackney | 299,923 | 1,357,741 | 426,157 | 2,083,821 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Hammersmith | 255,672 | 617,893 | 873,926 | 1,747,491 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 11 |
| Hampstead | 55,701 | 6,000 | 200,092 | 261,793 | 9 | 12 | 4 | ||
| Holborn | 106,894 | — | 70,525 | 177,419 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 4 |
| Islington | 218,344 | 576,766 | 828,412 | 1,623,522 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 11 | |
| Kensington | 139,204 | — | 308,045 | 447,249 | 10 | 15 | 4 | ||
| Lambeth | 154,550 | __ | 617,239 | 771,789 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | |
| Lewisham | 315,790 | — | 548,040 | 863,830 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
| Paddington | 148,459 | — | 5,928 | 154,387 | 1 | 8 | I | 0 | 11 |
| Poplar.. | 372,005 | 735,342 | 661,035 | 1,768,382 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 |
| St. Marylebone | 279,056 | 1,845,847 | 122,553 | 2,247,456 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 4 |
| St. Pancras | 175,903 | 948,905 | 557,984 | 1,682,792 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 5 | |
| Shoreditch | 57,442 | 467,910 | 169,427 | 694,779 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 3 | |
| Southwark | 99,910 | 122,569 | 120,186 | 342,665 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 2 | |
| Stepney | 220,062 | 1,668,796 | 409,613 | 2,298,471 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Stoke Newington | 105,070 | 220,040 | 74,734 | 399,844 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Wandsworth | 508,481 | _ | 1,323,054 | 1,831,535 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| Westminster (City) | 846,885 | - | 369,821 | 1,216,706 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 1 |
| Woolwich | 642,526 | 802,032 | 2,038,899 | 3,483,457 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| Total | 6,889,312 | 12,442,426 | 13,720,583 | 33,052,321 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
In addition to the above, the following amounts are outstanding in respect of loans
raised for the purpose of making advances to borrowers under the Small Dwellings Acquisition
Acts:—
£
Hackney 205,552
Hammersmith 13,787
Hampstead 1,985
Islington 47,401
Stoke Newington 4,078
Wandsworth 108,278
Woolwich 1,010,981
1,392,062