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efficiency in the discharge of the duties devolving on the several
Officers will be attained by the changes which have been made.
The Sewers Surveyor having completed a lengthened service
of 18 years, resigned his office in January last, on the ground of
declining health, thus affording the Board an opportunity of
combining the offices of Sewers Surveyor and Highways Surveyor.
This course was adopted, and the duties of Sewers Surveyor were
transferred to Mr. Carline, who had for five years previously
efficiently discharged the duties of Highways Surveyor, the Board
at the same time providing him with competent assistants in the
details of his now twofold department.
A divided authority had also grown up by degrees, as
between the Cleric and Book-keeper with reference to the
Accounts which was found to be detrimental to the interests of the
Board, and a general revision of the duties of the Officers having
been made early in the present year, the Clerk was invested with
the superintendence and direction of the collection and receipt
of all monies, and of the keeping of the Account Books, and the
Board appeal with satisfaction to the improved form of the Statements
of Account for the year ending Lady-day last as appended to
the present Report, as evidence of the advantage of such change.
The increasing Sanitary duties devolving on the Board have
also rendered it incumbent upon them to appoint additional
inspectors of Nuisances; three have accordingly been appointed—
the office of Dust Inspector being discontinued, and his duties
being undertaken by the Inspectors, the Board are satisfied that
a far more efficient sanitary inspection of the District has, in
consequence, been effected.
The greatly increased business of the Board, and the minute
details to which the attention of Members is necessarily directed,
so greatly augmented the difficulty in following the numerous
chains ol proceedings in widely separated localities, that the
Board resolved to have recourse to printing the Minutes of their
proceedings, and they are unanimoulys of opinion that the resulting
ad \ ant ages are so considerable as far to outweigh all consideiations
ot the labour and expense which it involves.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
In the Boards Report for the past year a history of their
proceedings with leterence to the Beckenham Tongue of Land
was given, commencing from the early years of the Board's