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The Sale of Food and Drugs, &c., Acts.
The Advertising Stations (Rating) Act, 1889.
The Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889.
The Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act, 1890.
The Board are also a Local or Road Authority under
the Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings Acts, 1868, and the
amending Acts, and the Tramways and Electric Lighting
Acts, and have various powers under the Metropolitan Open
Spaces and other Acts.
The Board submit herewith:-
An account in abstract, showing their Receipts and
Expenditure during the year ended 25th March,
1891; a summary statement of their Assets and
Liabilities on that day; and a statement of the
contracts entered into by them during the year
ended 25th March, 1891.
The Board also submit, in their usual form, certain
details of such Receipts and Expenditure and Assets and
Liabilities, and
A statement of comparison of Expenditure between
the years 1888-9, 1889-90, and 1890-91, and
A table of Loans from the 1st January, 1856, to the
25th March, 1891.
The Board submit the Report of the Medical Officer of
Health of the District for the year ended 31st December,
1890, on the sanitary condition of the District.
In the opening paragraph of that report the Medical
Officer states: "the sanitary condition of the Lewisham
District during the year 1890 has been eminently satisfactory.
There has been a slight rise in the death rate, but this has
been due to causes which have raised the death rate for 1890
over the whole kingdom. Those causes were, in the first
place, the Influenza epidemic, which accounted, both directly
and indirectly, for a large increase in the number of deaths
at the beginning of the year; and, secondly, the intense cold
daring the last part of the year, which was fatal in many
instances to both very young and very old persons.