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with a view to secure power to enable the Council to provide
means of free communication across the River Thames
in the vicinity of Shadwell or Ratcliff.
The Board passed a resolution in support of that proposal.
General Subjects.
The Board, during the year, received and dealt with
numerous letters from the Board of Trade, the Local Government
Board, the London County Council, and from Metropolitan
Vestries and District Boards and other Boards,
relating to matters of business and general interest to the
Metropolis.
The Board also received and dealt with a large number
of letters from residents relating to numerous and varied
subjects affecting the District, and the lighting, cleansing,
and improvement of the same, but not of sufficient importance
for reproduction in this report.
Meetings of the Board and Committees.
There were in all 144 Meetings held during the year,
viz., 22 Ordinary Meetings of the Board and two Special
Meetings; 26 Meetings of the Works and General Purposes
Committee, including Special Meetings; 11 Ordinary
Monthly Meetings of the Finance Committee; and 22 Fortnightly
Meetings held immediately before the Board Meetings;
21 Meetings of the Local Committee of Blackheath
and Lewisham; 21 Meetings of the Sydenham and Forest
Hill Local Committee; and 19 Meetings of the Penge
Local Committee.
Attendances of Members of the Board.
The total number of attendances of Members of the
Board at Board and regular Committee Meetings, held
between the 25th March, 1891, and the 25th March, 1892,
is given in the statement appended hereto.
By Order,
ED WD. WRIGHT,
Clerk to the Board.
The Board's Offices,
Catford, s.e.,
June, 1892.