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reports of the Surveyors and Sanitary Inspectors and other
Officers following, There are also annexed hereto copies
of the Annual Reports of the Medical Officers of Health,
and other tabular statements, including a report (Table A,
page 18), showing Population, Number of Houses and
Rateable Value in respect of each Parish in the District as
compared with last year and with the whole Metropolis.
The result of the election of the County Council (March,
1892) is also shown (page 17).
2. The annual report of the Public Analyst for this
District is also published herewith.
3. Particulars of prosecutions by the Board for offences
are also given in a separate report.
4. The Acts of Parliament under which this Board
exercises its various powers in this District of the Metropolis,
are chiefly as follows:-
The Metropolis Management Acts.
5. The Metropolis Management Act, 1855, 18 and 19
Vic., Cap. 120, is the Act under which the Board was
originally constituted and the District defined. The
District, then called Plumstead District, included the
following parishes, viz.:—Charlton, Eltham, Kibrook, Lee
and Plumstead. The Vestries of these Parishes
(Plumstead now excepted—see below) elect members
to the Board, the vestries being themselves chosen by
the rate-payers. The annual election of members to the
Board by the Vestries takes place in each Parish on the
first Wednesday in the month of June. One third of