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Lewisham 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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General Summary of the foregoing Receipts,
Exclusive of NEW STREETS and PENGE RECREATION GROUND (Purchase Account
| LEWISHAM. | PENGE. | TOTAL. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1887. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. |
| March 25. Cash Balances | ... | ... | 3,408 | 2 | ||||
| Local Guardians and Overseers in payment of Precepts for this Board's General Expenditure | 35,500 | 0 | 0 | 8,994 | 0 | 0 | 4 1,494 | 0 |
| Sale of Manure, &c., and Old Horses | 98 | 8 | 6 | ... | 98 | 8 | ||
| Loans raised for Works and Improvements and for Repayment of the Penge Gravel Allotment Fund Loan | 3,772 | 0 | 0 | 1,075 | 0 | 0 | 4,847 | 0 |
| Sale of Dust | 38 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 49 | 8 |
| Sydenham Recreation Ground—proportion of Receipts | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Establishment Account—proportion of Receipts | 394 | 2 | 8 | 135 | 19 | 9 | 530 | 2 |
| Contributions towards Improvements | 405 | 0 | 0 | ... | 405 | 0 | ||
| Watering and repairing Boundary Roads, repairing County Bridge Roads, and re-instating Roads and Footpaths broken up by Gas and Water Companies, &c | 587 | 8 | 10 | 137 | 7 | 9 | 724 | 16 |
| Hoard Licenses | 11 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 13 | 15 |
| Lighting Sydenham Hill—receipt from Camber well Vestry | 44 | 12 | 11 | ... | 44 | 12 | ||
| Frontage Drains, &c | 345 | 1 | 0 | 47 | 16 | 10 | 392 | 17 |
| private Works undertaken at expense of Owners of property, &c | 150 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 1] | 8 | 158 | 4 |
| Interest on Mortgage — Penge Gravel Allotment Fund | ... | 29 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 1 | ||
| Sundry Now Streets, for Hire of Tools, Plant, &c. | 88 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 92 | 17 |
| Local Guardians and Overseers, for London School Board | 15,943 | 17 | 0 | 6,899 | 1 | 6 | 22,842 | 18 |
| Ditto ditto for Metropolitan Consolidated Rate | 14,078 | 2 | 7 | 5,160 | 9 | 5 | 19,238 | 12 |
| £71,457 | 16 | 5 | £22,504 | 19 | 10 | |||
| £97,370 | 18 | |||||||
Note -The Establishment Receipts and Expenses of the Board are, in the first instance, apportioned between
the Parish of Lcwisham and Hamlet of penge, on the basis of rateable value, and such receipts and expenses are
turther apportioned between th. , veral ratc-purposea in tho Parish and Hamlet respectively in proportion to the
net expenditure for the year <>n each.
The Rateable Valuo adopted as the basis of apportionment is the same as adopted by the Metropolitan Board
of Works for the year 1888, viz:—
Harish of Lewisham £456,956
Hamlet of penge 157,659
£614,615