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St. Sabiour's District Board of Works.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 187 8-79,
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.
The Metropolitan Board of Works introduced into Parliament
early in the present Session " A Bill to amend the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same,
so far as relates to the protection of the Metropolis from floods
and inundations caused by the overflow of the River Thames."
The Bill being of a similar character to that of 1877, save in
matters of detail, and founded on the principle of charging local
authorities and waterside owners with the expense of any works
which the Metropolitan Board might deem necessary to prevent
inundations, it was resolved to oppose the same, and also to
memorialize the Home Secretary upon the subject. Accordingly
a Memorial was drawn up and presented to the Right Honourable
R. A. Cross, M.P., calling his attention to the fact that the
Metropolitan Board, in the present Bill, had failed to adopt the
' Thames River
, (Prevention of
' Floods) Bill.