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Lewisham 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: General Summary of the foregoing Receipts(exclusive of new streets).

General Summary of the foregoing Receipts

(exclusive of new streets).

LEWISHAM.PENGE.Total.
1884.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
March 25. Cash Balances………………4,996124
Local Guardians and Overseers in payment of Precepts for District purposes34,092539,9950044,08753
Ditto ditto for Metropolitan Consolidated Rate11,0381754,425171015,464153
Ditto ditto for London School Board13,68913115,38119619,071135
Repair of Boundary Roads, County Bridge Roads, and reinstatement of Roads, &c., broken up by Gas and Water Companies7852032101817121
Sale of Manure, Road Scrapings, &c., and for Hoard Licenses546611560169126
Recreation Ground233169300
Watering Boundary Roads, &c.5025450254
Loans raised2,05000100002,15000
Lighting1019710197
Frontage Drains4927847111539189
Interest on Mortgage—(Penge Gravel Allotment Fund)54515451
Sundry Works undertaken at expense of Owners of property, &c.—Contribution, &c.618169476066629
Establishment Expenses388182150167539149
Laying Granite Crossing, Lawrie Park, Sydenham—Moiety of cost received from Beckenham Local Board9140………9140
£63,8251910£20,351811
£89,17411

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Note.—The Establishment Receipts and Expenses of the Board are in the first instance apportioned between
????e Parish of Lewisham and Hamlet of Penge, on the basis of rateable value, and such receipts and expenses are
???irther apportioned between the several rate-purposes in the Parish and Hamlet respectively in proportion to the
???et expenditure for the year on each.
The Rateable Value adopted as the basis of apportionment is the same as adopted by the Metropolitan Board
??? Works for the year 1885, viz.:—
Parish of Lewisham £417,367
Hamlet of Penge 161,864
£579,231