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St. Sabiour's District Board of Works.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 187 7-7 8,
AND
REPORTS
OF
THE MEDICAL OFFICER, ANALYST,
AND SURVEYOR;
Also Accounts in Abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure of
the Board during the same period.
Printed in accordance with section 198 of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, (18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120,) and ordered to be
circulated among the Inhabitants of the District.
As stated in this Board's last Annual Report, the Metropolitan
Board of Works, chiefly in consequence of the steps taken by
this Board, in conjunction with the Vestry of Lambeth and
other Vestries and Local Boards of Works having charge of
Parishes bounded by the River Thames, introduced into Parliament
in the Session of 1877 a Bill to amend the Metropolis Local
Management Act, so far as related to the protection of the
Metropolis from floods and inundations caused by the overflow of
the River Thames, entitled The Thames River (Prevention of
Floods) Bill; by which it was proposed to throw the principal
portion of the expense of necessary works for preventing the
recurrence of such disasters upon the local authorities. This Bill
was referred by the House of Commons to a Select Committee,
with an instruction "to inquire into, and report upon, the most
equitable mode of charging and meeting the expense to be incurred
by the Bill;" and the Select Committee, after much deliberation
and hearing arguments of counsel on behalf of the promoters and
Overflow of
Thames.