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roads in Lewisham Parish, and 1,200 cubic yards in Penge. These
quantities do not include the material taken away by the contractors
for the removal of road scrapings, dead leaves, &c.., which
amount to something considerable. No doubt cleansing the roads
is essential to the health of the District, particularly in autumn,
when the leaves are falling, but it forms a large item in the cost
of highways. I admire trees in a road, but I must say it appears
to me they ought to be properly trimmed, both on the score of
health, convenience of traffic, and economy of road maintenance.
A great many notices were served asking residents to cut the trees
in front of their houses. In most cases they were promptly
attended to. Some of the tenants asked me to allow the Board's
men to do the work, which I did.

During this period rain fell on 172 days. There was 9.61
inches more rain this year than in the corresponding period last
year. The Greenwich Boundary Roads were maintained by the
Lewisham Board at a contract price, and also the road of Sydenham
Hill, the Camberwell Vestry paying half the ascertained cost.
ROAD WATERING.
The larger portion of the Lewisham, together with the
Blackheath Roads, were watered by horses belonging to the