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Lewisham 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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The detailed Particulars of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Board for the year bled 25th March,1886, referred to in the foregoing Account in Abstract.

1885. RECEIPTS.£a.d.£s.d.£s.dLEWISHAM. PAYMENTS.
March 26. Cash balance in the hands of the TreasurersGeneral Purposes Account—£s.d.£9.d.£s.d.
Current Account)5,26646Highways, Maintenance, &c.
Ditto ditto Cashier48452Materials4,74192
5,75098Labourers and Carmen5,121150
Ditto ditto Treasurer (New Streets)634191Cartage (Hired Horses, &c.)1,738144
LEWISHAM.6,38589Board's Horses, maintenance of50483
General Purposes Account.Steam Road Roller2701610
From the Local Guardians, in payment of PreceptsTar and Asphalte Paving Repairs591160
for this Board's General Expenditure25,73900Repairs to Carts, Tools, New Cart, and Scraper, &c.591166
Sale of Manure, and credit for a horse resold or returned81110Rent of Wharf9100
Sundry Works116182
Loan raised for Improvements60000Repair and maintenance of Boundary Road39046
Sale of Dust186181
Metropolitan Board of Works (for Forest Hill Improvements)1,2500014,158189
Instalments and Interests on Loans4,712! 135
Proportion of Receipts on Recreation Ground Account147Rents, Rates, and Taxes3778
Hoard Licenses26180Vestry Expenses (viz., sums paid by the Board on request of the Vestry of Lewisham)119137
Proportion of Receipts on Establishment Account (see Account annexed)602182
Proportion of Expenses on Recreation Ground Account4021411
Sundry Receipts for Watering and Repairing Boundary Roads, for Repairing Country Bridge Roads and Footpaths broken Roads and up by Gas and Water Companies.Ditto on Establishment Account (see Account annexed3,279154
587138
Proportion of School Board Election Expenses15446
Repairs at Stoneyard, Road to Field, &c16159
29,07544London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company (for Forest Hill Improvements) see Metrop. Board of Works, contra1,25000
From the Local Guardians in payment of the Precept of the School Board for London15,314136
Expenses of Dust Collecting1,5061811
44,3891710Ditto Watering3,2351810
Sundry Improvement43945
29,31461
The School Board for London, under their Precept for Expenses charged on the Parish of Lewisham15,314136
Lighting Account—Lighting Account—44,628197
From the Local Guardians in payment of Precept5,59500The Crystal Palace District Gas Co. for Gas for Street Lighting2,398158
Camberwell Vestry (Moiety of cost of Lighting Sydenham Hill)4820
The South Metropolitan Gas Co. ditto ditto2,460135
Proportion of Receipts on Establishment Account (see Account annexed)133156Lighting Sydenham Hill (Boundary Road)67188
Sugg W. (New Lamps and Burners)2550
Proportion of Expenses on Establishment Account (see Account annexed)69054
5,776176
Sewerage Purposes Account—Sewerage Purposes Account-5,642181
From the Local Guardians in payment of Precept2,31200Instalments and Interest on Loans, and Income Tax1,272411
For Frontage Drains, &c.—Sundry receipts from Owners of property to be drained, &c35959Sewers Cleansing and Repairs, Expenses of Frontage Drains constructed at expense of Owners918147
Proportion of Receipts on Establishment Account (see Account annexed)54310of property drained351152
Cleansing and Maintaining Urinals241711
2,72597Surface Drainage Works4864
Sundry other Works26110
Proportion of Expenses on Establishment Account (see Account annexed)32190
Sewers Construction (Loan Account)—Sewers Construction (Loan Account) —2,9631811
From Metropolitan Board of Works500nnBeadle Brothers, New Manholes to Sewers400129
Ditto Re-constructing Sewer in London Road, Forest Hill84172
Metropolitan Board of Works, Costs of Mortgage, &c. Cooper, W., Surplus in respect of the supervision of the Sewers on the Knighton Park Estate, Lower21511
Sydenham900
497510
Carried forward£53,3924116,38589Carried forward£53,73326