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

  • St. Leonard Shoreditch (London, England). Parish Council.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    4 by the Vestry for local purposes, and the remainder 3s. 10d. was paid to the Guardians of the Poor and for general Metropolitan expenses. It is important to bear in mind the continual increase in the precepts of the general Metropolitan authorities, as the effect of such increase in Shoreditch has been to cause a corres ponding decrease in the expenditure for local purposes. This result is a natural one where the authority administering local affairs is constantly confronted with the difficulty of collecting increasing rates from overburdened ratepayers, on many of whom distresses have to be levied, and where pledges to secure the strictest economy are exacted by ratepayers from their local representatives, who are the first to be held responsible for an addition to the rates. This tendency for the precepts of the general Metropolitan authorities to increase at the expense of local expenditure and so starve local work is clearly shown by. The following table taken from figures published by the London County Council. AUTHORITY. 1887-8. 1888-9. 1889-90. 1890-1 d. d. d. d. County Justices 1.25 1.25 London County Council. 12.53 13.25 Metropolitan Board of Works 7.62 10.90 Police 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 School Board 8.36 7.97 8.9 10.69 Asylums Board 1.75 2.25 1.875 2.125 Common Poor Fund 7.54 7.40 7.67 7.96 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Total Rate for Metropolitan purposes 2 7.52 2 10.83 2 11.975 3 3.025 Kates for Local purposes 2 3.48 2 117 2 1.025 1 11.975 4 11 5 0 5 1 5 3 In the above table local purposes includes the expenditure of the Vestry, Burial Board, Overseers, and of the Guardians on local poor. It will thus be seen that in three years the rates for Metropolitan purposes have increased by 7½d. in the £, whilst rates for local purposes have decreased by 3½d. in the It is not surprising, under these circumstances, that charges of insufficiency of work are brought against Metropolitan local authorities, whose members find themselves in the dilemma of having to decrease their expenditure or of ceasing to represent the ratepayers.