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72,000, which population has still further increased according to
the present estimates to 74,901; which places this District, with
regard to population, 14th in the list of all the Parishes and Districts
in the Metropolis (excluding from consideration the six great
Parishes returning more than one Member to your Honourable
Board), and leaves 19 Parishes and Districts with a less population
than your Memorialists, all of whom, with the exception of the
Plumstead Board, the St. Olave's District Board, and Rotherhithe,
return each a Member to your Honourable Board.
5. Your Honourable Board will perhaps consider it of more
importance to ascertain the amount of rateable value which is
taxed by your Honourable Board, but which your Memorialists
submit, under the circumstances already stated, is at present unrepresented
at your Board. The rateable value of this District at
its formation in 1850 amounted to £138,100, being the 3rd lowest
in amount of all the Districts contained in Schedule B, excepting
Plumstead, with which it was joined ; whereas, from the statement
of Rateable Values contained in the Apportionment of your
Honourable Board of the sums required to be raised by your
Honourable Board for the present year, 1883, it will be seen that
the rateable value of your Memorialists' District now amounts to
£540,703, and that in respect thereof they now stand the 11th on
the list of Parishes and District Boards sending one Member to
your Honourable Board; and that there are no less than 19 other
Parishes and District Boards, returning one Member each, who
have a less rateable value than your Memorialists, counting the
District of St. Olave's and the Parish of Rotherhithe for the purpose
as one Board; and that the rateable value of the District of
your Memorialists is double the rateable value of three of the
District Boards sending a representative to your Honourable Board.
6. That the number of inhabited houses in your Memorialists'
District, according to the census of 1851, only amounted to 2,770,
whereas the inhabited houses therein in the year 1882 are estimated
to have increased to 11,941, and were, according to the census
taken in 1881, 11,543.
7. Your Memorialis beg to call your attention to the fact that
lor the present year, 1883, your Honourable Board requires the
payment of the sum of £14,261 10s. as the apportioned amount
due from the Lewisham District; and your Memorialists feel that
they are justified, and indeed bound, in the interests of the