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the 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 21), 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 last County Council is
also shown (page 20).
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
Vict., 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, Kidbrook,
Lee and Plumstead. The Metropolis Management (Plumstead
and Hackney) Act, 1893, separated Plumstead from the