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Lewisham 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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The detailed Particulars of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Board for the jar ended 25th March, 1889, referred to in the foregoing Account in Abstract.

1888. RECEIPTS.£s.d.£s.d.£s.LEWISIIAM. PAYMENTS.
March 25. Cash balance in the hands of the Treasurers (Current Account)4,291122General Purposes Account-£s.d.£8.d.£s.d.
Highways, Maintenance, &c.3,762
Ditto ditto Cashier45497Materials 198
4,74919Labourers and Carmen 5,410105
LEWISHAM74607Cartage (Hired Horses, &c.) 1,969610
5,4952Board's Horses, maintenance of57362
General Purposes Account-Steam Road Roller31395
From the Local Guardians, in payment of Precepts for this Board's General Expenditure26,92000Repairs to Tar Paving187106
New Carts, Sweeping Machino, Brooms, Tools,
Sale of Manure and Old Horses931 30and repairs to Snow Ploughs, Tools, &c.573120
Sale of Dust5910Rent and repair of Wharf 9696
Hoard Licenses41510Repair and maintenance of Boundarv Roads 654189
Proportion of Receipts on Sydenham Recreation Ground Account17Rent of Shoots for Road Scrapings, &c.76160
Trees, and planting and staking same 44311
Proportion of Receipts on Establishment account (see Account annexed)26096Compensation and Law Costs53167
Fixing posts, rails, &c., in various parts of the5
Plumstead District Board of Works -Contribution Towards cost of new footbridge,Dermody Road1500District7416
New Footbridge across Quaggy in Dermody Road3014
Sundry New Streets (for hire of Tools, Plant, &c.)..4204
Sundry Receipts for Watering and Repairing13,721166
Boundary Roads, Repairing County Bridge Roads,Instalments and Interest on Loans 4,60769
and reinstating Roads and Footpaths broken up byRents, Rates, and Taxes (Depots) ..8764
Gas and Water Companies, &c.7421711Vestry Expenses (viz., sums paid by the Board on
request of the Vestrv of Lewisham) 126133
28.08480Proportion of Expenses on Sydenham Recreation
From the Local Guardians in payment of the PreceptGround Account 3121510
of the School Board for London i15,523167Ditto ditto Penge ditto26176
4[3,60847Ditto on Establishment Account (see Account
annexed) 3,16019
Repairs to Depot, Lower Sydenham; Stoneyard,
Forest Hill; Catford Depot, and Cart-sheds 4196
Expenses of Dust Collecting 2,415107
IDitto Watering3,041131
Sundry Improvements 1681
Coals, Gas, and Water (Depots) 1162
Sundry New Streets for Tools, Plant, Materials, &c.3117
Proportion of the Expenses of the Election of the
School Board for London 137113 -
Contribution towards the cost of altering Wall in
front of St. Dunstan's College 3500
(27,96182
The School Board for London, under their Precept
for Expenses charged on the Parish of Lewisham 15,523167
Lighting Account—-43,'18549
Lighting Account—
From the Local Guardians in payment of Precept 5,86200The Crystal Palace District Gas Company for Gas
Camberwell Vestry (Moiety of cost of Lightingfor Street Lighting2,53676
Sydenham Hill) 44 188The South Metropolitan Gas Company ditto ditto2,48095
Proportion of Receipts on Establishment AccountLighting Sydenham Hill (Boundary Road) 8970
(see Account annoxed)6581Sugg, A\r., new Lamps, Columns, and Burners42fi8 6
j5,96269Bray, G., and Co. ditto ditto 1815
Carried forward Mowlem, J., and Co., Paving round Lamp Column,
4f>,570 ]114Westwood Park2142
<rv195 5J 4London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company,
Carriage 1211
5,17131
Proportion of Expenses on Establishment Account
(see Account annexed)666113
5,t*37144
Carried forward £49, J522191