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The Board of Works for the Lewisham District.
REPORT.
The Board submit with this, their Report for the year
1881-82:—
A Statement of their Receipts and Expenditure during
the year ended 25th March, 1882, and of their Assets and
Liabilities on that day, with the Schedules referred to in
such Statements, containing detailed particulars of each item
therein.
A Statement of comparison of Expenditure between the
years 1879-80, 1880-81, and 1881-2.
A Table of Loans from the 1st January, 1856, to the
25th March, 1882.
A Statement of the Contracts entered into by the Board
during the year ended 25th March, 1882.
The Board also submit the Report of their Medical
Officer of Health, for the year ended 31st December, 1881,
containing particulars of the population, rate of mortality,
and other statistics relating to the general health of the
District; and the Report of the Board's Surveyor for the year
ended Lady-day, 1882, in which will be found the particulars
of the works carried out under his supervision.
LOANS.
Among the Financial arrangements of the Board may be
mentioned the important step taken for the Consolidation of
Loans, by which a very considerable saving in interest was
secured. With a view to such consolidation the Board, in
most of their recent mortgages, obtained the insertion of a
clause empowering them to pay off the mortgage on six
months' notice, and in the year now under review they,
under the advice of their Finance Committee, decided to