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forth the urgent reasons that existed in favour of this Board
having a separate representative at the Metropolitan Board,
and requesting that Board to adopt the necessary measures to
carry out this Board's wish into effect.
At the present time this Board is joined with the Plumstead
Board of Works in electing a joint Member to the
Metropolitan Board, and for the past fourteen years a Member
of the Plumstead Board of Works has been elected to fill this
office, and inasmuch as the Members of the Plumstead Board
number 37, and the Members of this Board only 27, it is
apparent that it is always in the power of the Plumstead
Board to elect their own Representative, and that, therefore,
for all practical purposes, the Lewisham Board is unrepresented
at the Metropolitan Board.
This state of affairs has long been considered by this
Board as unsatisfactory and unjust, as the interests of the
Lewisham Board are larger than those of the Plumstead
Board, the population of the Lewisham District, according to
the Census of 1881, amounting to about 72,000, or 8,000 in
excess of the Plumstead District, the rateable value of the
District at 1884 being £564,439, or £238,867 in excess of
the Plumstead District.
A Memorial, of which a copy is appended, was duly prepared,
approved, and sealed by the Board, and the appointment
having been made, a Deputation, consisting of all the
Members of the Board, attended the Metropolitan Board on
the 9th November. 1883, and presented the same. Mr. Theo.
W. Williams, the Chairman, addressed the Metropolitan
Board of Works in support of the Memorial, and the same
was referred, together with a similar Memorial presented by
the Plumstead District Board of Works, to the Works and
General Purposes Committee of the Board, but no further
information had been given this Board on the subject at the
date of this Report, June, 1884.
DEATH OF MR. LLOYD.
The Board were informed on the 12th March of the
death of Mr. James R. Lloyd, the Representative of the joint