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As in former years, the largest item of expenditure is the payment of
the demands of the School Board for London, which apparently increase
year by year. During the year just ended the total expenditure of the
District Board, including, as before, the maintenance of the sewers,
amounted to £39,258 0s. 11d., or £406 5s. less than the preceding year.
£16,661 8s. 8d. out of this went to the School Board for London and
£872 12s. 4d. to the Commissioners of the Public Library, leaving the
sum of £21,724 19s. 11d. for the expenses of this Board for carrying out
the maintenance of the district as a Sanitary and Road Authority, and
performing all the various duties entailed by the Statutes regulating the
local government of the district. In the preceding year the expenditure
of the Board, after paying the precepts of the School Board for London
and the Library Commissioners was £22,827 7s. l0d. and a comparison
of the one year last past against this shows the very considerable reduction
in the expenses of the Board of £1102 7s. 11d. The Board has, therefore,
no hesitation in again saying that from these figures the inhabitants will be
able to discern a continued desire on the part of the Board to carry out
the duties entrusted to it without materially adding to the burden of the
ratepayers of the district.
The late Medical Officer of Health received a salary of £200 per
annum, which annual payment has now been reduced to £50 by way
of superannuation. The salary proposed for his successor, notwithstanding
the objection made by the Local Government Board, is fixed at .£350,
making in all £400; under this heading of expenditure in the first place
is an apparent increase of £200, but in reality only an increase of £25, for
the simple reason that one-half of the new officer's salary, viz., £175 will
be payable by the London County Council out of the Exchequer Contribution
Account to this Board. In other words, the annual expense
consequent upon the new appointment of a Medical Officer of Health is
an increase in the permanent charges of £25 only.
During the year the salary of the Clerk's Assistant, Mr. Nichols, has been
raised from £80 to £104 per annum, and that of the Sanitary Inspector,
Mr. Bennett, from £130 to £ 140.
The rateable values of the various Parishes and Liberties comprising
the district, the amounts for which precepts were issued by the Board for
General and Sewer Expenses, and the amounts received during the year,
appear in the following table:—