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The Board submit the Report of the Medical Officer of
Health of the District for the year ended 31st December,
1888, on the sanitary condition of the District.
On a perusal of that report it will be seen that the health
of the District continued highly satisfactory, the annual rate
of mortality was only 13.4 per 1000, comparing most
favourably with the death rate of London and other great
towns, including some of the sea-side resorts.
The average death rate in the Lewisham District, in the
past five years, was 13.6 per 1000.
The Board also submit the Report of the Surveyor for
the year ended 25th March, on the various works relating
to the Highways, Lighting, Watering, Sewerage Works,
Street Improvements, and other Works projected and carried
out during the year, showing the extent of those works, and
affording general information with reference to the same.
Several of the most important matters that received the
attention of the Board during the year are included in this
Report under the following heads:—
EXPENDITURE.
The Local Expenditure of the Board in the year shows
no increase upon that of the previous year, notwithstanding
the increased mileage of the roads to be repaired, lighted.,
and watered, and the other increased and continually increasing
responsibilities of the Board. The amount required for
local purposes from the Parish of Lewisham was £35,500,
being equivalent to a rate on the rateable value of Is. 6d.
in the pound. From the Hamlet of Penge £8,830 was
required, being equivalent to a rate of Is. 2d. in the pound.
The sums required in the previous year were £35,500 and
£8994 respectively.
The sums raised under the Precepts of the Metropolitan
Board of Works and the School Board for London, and paid
over to those bodies, were:—
For the Metropolitan Board of Works, £21,553 0 7
For the School Board for London, 20,756 2 6