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the cost of reconstructing the Penge and Bell Green Sewer.
The sum receivable was £1692 5s. 2d., exclusively of the cost
of obtaining the Act (which was also paid by Beckenham),
and of the permanent annual payment of ½d. in the £ on the
rateable value of the Beckenham Sewerage Area; and the cost
of reconstructing the Penge and Bell Green Sewer was
£2,120 l1s. 7d. The equitable apportionment of these sums
between Lewisham and Penge, having regard to all circumstances
was a question of considerable difficulty, but it was
accomplished to the satisfaction of both Parishes; and the
co-operation stated to have auspiciously begun between the
Bromley Guardians, as the Rural Sanitary Autherity for
Beckenham, and this Hoard, has continued to give effect to
the Act. During the year, the sewer, which will probably
prove the most important work to be constructed under the
Act for many years to come, was commenced, viz., a brick
sewer, 3ft. by 2ft. and 2430ft. in length, estimated to cost
£900, connecting the sewer on the Birkbeck Estate in
Beckenham with the Pcnge and Bell Green Sewer of this
Board, at a point near the road leading from Kent House
Lane to the New Beckenham Station of the Mid Kent
Railway.
This work forms the trunk sewer for the Beckenham
Sewerage Area; and will not only relievo Penge from
nuisances, to which it has long been subjected from the
adjoining Parish of Beckenham, but will also be available
for the drainage of a small part of the Hamlet itself.
In addition to the above, a number of minor sewers and
surface water conduits and drains have been projected by
Mr. Williams, on behalf of the Guardians and this Board, as
works to be carried out at their joint expense. These are
still under consideration by the two Boards, and their object
and details are fully stated in Mr. Williams' report, appended
hereto.
A Bill was introduced into Parliament for this Session,
(1874-5), for forming a Drainage District, to be called the
West Kent Drainage District, under which a joint Sewerage