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9
EXPENDITURE.
Inasmuch as this Board has to collect and pay over to
the different Metropolitan Boards very considerable sums in
the course of the year, it may be well to note that the actual
amount required by this Board during the year under review
for its own purposes, from the Guardians of the Poor of
Lewisham, was only the sum of £34,092, being equivalent
to a rate, on the Rateable Value in force at the commencement
of the year, of a fraction over 1s. 8d. in the pound,
while the rates levied for the same period for all purposes in
the Parish of Lewisham amounted to 5s. 4d. in the pound.
The amount so required from the Overseers of the Hamlet
of Penge was £9,995, being equivalent to a rate of a fraction
under 1s. 3d. in the pound, out of an amount of 5s. 3d. in the
pound levied in the Hamlet. The amounts which the Board
raised for Metropolitan bodies, and paid over to them,
were:—For the Metropolitan Board, £15,464 15s. 3d.; forthe
School Board, £19,071 13s. 5d. The Metropolitan Board's
Precept for the year ending 31st December, 1885, and embracing
a portion of the year now under review, is £2,448
in excess of the sum thus required; and that of the London
School Board for the same period is £2,070 in excess of the
amount raised for their purposes in the past year.
SALE OF FOOD, &c., ACTS.
Notwithstanding the facilities offered, enabling the ratepayers
to avail themselves of these Acts for the detection of
adulteration of food, milk, &c., very few have taken advantage
thereof. Full particulars of these facilities, as given
in a public notice issued by the Board, are set out in
previous Reports; and for convenience the Board again
repeat the same:—
The Notice referred to.
"The attention of the Board having been called to the desirability
of giving greater facilities than at present exist to the
general public in aid of the working of 'The Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts', they have now made arrangements with the Public