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From this Table it will be seen, that altheugh the
quantity of material used in the last year is very much less
than in the year 1873-4, it is not much below the average
for the three years ending Lady-day, 1870, and perhaps
any reduction below such average ought not to be expected.
Considerable as were the permancnt improvements effected
in the roads and footpaths in the year ending Lady-day,
1874, there has, taking ono class of work with another, been
but little abatement during the past year. In Lewisham,
5522 lineal yards of granite kerbing and channelling have
been laid, against 7348 lineal yards in the previous year,
while 17,321 superficial square yards of asphalte and tarpaving
have been laid, against 10,446 superficial square
yards in the previous year; the bulk of the works in the last
year being in asphalte, instead of in the cheaper tarpaving,
as in the previous year.
In Pcnge, the quantity of work of each class executed
during the past year, has been considerably less than in the
previous year.
The total quantity of each class of work in each Parish
of the District is shown in the following.Table, and some
further details arc given in the Surveyor's Report annexed.
Parish of Lhwisiiam.
1873-4.
1874-5.
Kerbing
Lineal yarda
3370
2713
Channelling
3978
2809
Aspholte
Superficial gq. yards
4273
10,982
Concrete
4480
1092
Ditto kerbing and channelling..
19,926
18,413
11,173
6339
hamlet op Penge.
Kerbing
Lineal yarda.
2919
2700
Channelling
4456
3140
Superficial sq. yards
17,374
8517
IMPROVEMENTS.
Of the two special Local Improvements referred to in
the Board's last Report, near the Forest Hill and Sydenham
Railway Stations respectively, the first has been nearly