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Health of the District for the year ended 31st December,
1892, on the sanitary condition of the District.
The Board also submit the Report of their Surveyor for
the year ended 25th March, 1893, on the various works
relating to the Highways, Lighting, Watering, Sewerage,
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; and also with reference to the applications or
notices as to House Building, Drainage, New Sewers, New
Streets, and all other works.
Expenditure.
The Local Expenditure of the Board in the year shows
but a small increase from that of the previous year.
There has been a constant increase in the number of
roads coming under the Board s control and management,
and provision has had to be made for the cost of repairing,
lighting, cleansing, and watering the same. There are now
nearly 73 miles of roads undes the control of the Board. Provision
has also been made for the more frequent collection of
dust and house refuse; for a more improved and extended
flushing and cleansing of the servers, and for other important
sanitary works and arrangements in the District, to which,
no doubt, its very healthful condition is to a great extent due.
The sum raised by way of Precept in Lewisham was
£41,000, or equivalent to a rate of 1s. 7¾d. in the pound on
the Rateable Value in force at the commencement of the
year. In Penge the sum raised in the same way was
£11,500, or equivalent to 1s. 6¾d. in the pound.
The sum raised under the Precept of the School Board
for London, and paid over to that body, was £27,802 8s. l1d.
Rateable Value.
The Rateable Value of the District, at March, 1893,
was—
Lewisham £493,629
Penge 146,722
£640,351