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number of workmen and artizans than the district Board maintained,
though as far as the cartage department is concerned, it
actually cost about £50 less than the previous year, notwithstanding
the fact that the rolling stock, being in a bad condition at the
time of the dissolution, had to be renovated, the cost of which will
be seen from the following letter, presented to the Finance Committee
on the 20th May, 1887
Vestry Hall, Walham Green. S.W.
May 16th, 1887.
To the Chairman and Members of the Finance Committee.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with your instructions, I have abstracted the
cost of repairs to carts, vans, and trap, from 26th March, 1886, to
25th March, 1887, and find that the sum of £218 8s. 2d. has been
paid to Messrs. Ashford, Blanch, and Smith, Parfrey & Hitchings,
for repairs to carts and wheels. That about £85 has been expended
in wages to wheelwright and painter, and for colours, etc.,
making a total of about £305 for sixty carts, and vans, and one
trap, or about £5 each per annum for maintenance.
Your obedient Servant,
R. HERMANN MEYER,
Accountant.
NEW STREETS.
With reference to the New Streets Accounts, the net amount
due by contributors on the old roads transferred to this Vestry by
the late District Board of Works is £755 12s. 11d., and on those
streets, 14 in number, taken to by the Vestry during the past
year is £6,429 17s. 5d., making the total amount due on new streets
to be £7,185 10s. 4d.
USE OF WHARF, MORTUARY, &C.
The Vestry not having a Wharf, Mortuary, Disinfecting
Chamber, or Ambulance of their own, had to use those of the
Hammersmith Vestry, at a cost of £183 16s. 3d. for the year.