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8
veyor's Report. The total length of the Streets and Roads
under the jurisdiction of the Board, as Surveyor of Highways,
exceeds 61 miles. Nothing proves more clearly the
rapid growth of the District than the continual increase
in the mileage of the Streets under the control of the
Board.
STREET NAMING.
The following Streets have been re-named:—
Old Name. New Name.
Park Road Beacon Road.
Brandon Road Knowles Hill Crescent.
Not previously named Franklin Road (a portion of)
The following Streets have been numbered or renumbered:—
Beacon Road Knowles Hill Crescent.
Blythe Hill Lewis Grove.
Canterbury Road. Rushey Green.
Catford Hill Road. Rutland Road.
Ennersdale Road Stanstead Road
Garlies Road. Sunderland Road.
Genoa Road.
SANITARY.
The health of the District continues highly satisfactory.
The annual rate of mortality being only 13.7 per 1000, as
against 19.0 per 1000, the death rate of London.
The number of inhabited houses and the population
continue to increase. The number in each case, at Midsummer,
1887, being—
Inhabited houses—Lewisham 10,694
„ Penge 3,106
13,800
Population—Lewisham 65,768
Penge 20,655
86,423