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3. The roads, highways, and footpaths under the charge of
the Board, about two and a half miles in length, have been
regularly swept, cleansed, and repaired where necessary, and
kept in proper order, as heretofore.
4. All the sewers and public water courses have had attention
and have been regularly flnshed and cleansed to keep same
in good working order and condition.
5. The watering to the Public Highways and Roads has been
carried out in the usual manner during the summer months by
men and horses employed by the day at contract prices, and by
one of the Board's watering vans, and the water obtained as
heretofore from the mains of the Kent Water Works Company,
at a contract price for the season, disinfectants being added
during the summer months.
6. In compliance with the orders recently made by the
Commissioners of Police for the removal of the cabstand from
its existing position in Lee Road, Kidbrook, and the now site
for the same having been arranged next the Quaggy River in
Lee Road, the retaining wall necessary for the strengthening of
the river bank at this point has been erected by contract, and
the Board's workmen are now completing the paving of this
new cabstand with granite pitchers and Norwegian edge kerb,
upon a bed of Portland cement concrete, and the staging for
the cabmen's shelter over the river will be provided by means
of iron supports, the shelter being properly secured to the same.
7. The new road known as Meadowcourt Road, 1200 feet in
length, and 40 feet in width, leading out of the East side of Lee