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Lewisham 1856
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham District]
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| RECEIPTS. | £ | s. | d. | EXPENDITURE. | £ | s. | d. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEWISHAM, for General Purposes. | LEWISHAM, for General Purposes | ||||||||||||
| Highway Board, outstanding rates | £405 | 10 | 7 | Highway Board, outstanding liabilities | £344 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| By precept on Overseers | 1600 | 0 | 0 | Highway wages | 905 | 15 | |||||||
| Contributions towards highways, con- | Highway materials and cartage | 1996 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 245 | 6 | 3 | Furniture and implements (four-fifths) | 160 | 2 | 5 | |||||||
| 2250 | 16 | 10 | Repairs and alterations to house, ditto | 208 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
| For Sewerage Purposes. | Establishment ditto . | 653 | 9 | 11 | |||||||||
| Loan on security of Sewer Rate | £8000 | 0 | 0 | 4267 | 18 | 1 | |||||||
| 459 | 16 | 5 | For Sewerage Purposes. | ||||||||||
| 294 | 1 | 2 | 8753 | 17 | 7 | Sewerage works and attendant expenses | £5274 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Lighting Lewisham Division, from Inspectors | Cleansing ditches | 89 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| 32 | 9 | 11 | Private work | 700 | 8 | 1 | |||||||
| Ditto Sydenham ditto damage to lamp | 2 | 11 | 6 | Frontage drains | 418 | 4 | 10 | ||||||
| PENGE, for General Purposes. | 6481 | 14 | 3 | ||||||||||
| By precepts on Overseers | ,£800 | 0 | 0 | Lighting, Lewisham Division current expenses | |||||||||
| Surveyor of Highways, balance, &c | 18 | 19 | 4 | £69 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 818 | 19 | Instalment of debt of Lighting Inspectors | 30 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| For Sewerage Purposes. | 99 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Private works | 10 | 0 | Watering, Blackheath | 184 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
| Balance of cash overpaid by the Trea surer | £11 | 1 | 1 | PENGE, for General Purposes. | |||||||||
| Highway wages | £190 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Balance of cash account overpaid | 8 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 1 | Highway materials, &c | 350 | 14 | 2 | ||||
| Furniture and implements (one-fifth) . | 40 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Repairs and alterations ditto | 52 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Establishment ditto | 163 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 796 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||
| For Sewerage Purposes. | |||||||||||||
| Private works | 30 | 9 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Petty Cash.—For balance in hand | 20 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||||
| £11,880 | 4 | 3 | £11,880 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
We have caused to be prepared and do allow the above account in abstract, showing the Receipt and Expenditure of the Board of Works for
the Lewisham District for the preceding year, to which is appended a summary statement of all Contracts entered into by the Board in such year,
and of the monies owing to, and debts and liabilities owing by, such Board, on the 25th day of March, 1857.
R. G. JONES. EDWIN NASH. JAMES F. FLEET.