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St. Saviour's District Board of Workds.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 1880-81,
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.
Thames
Floods.
Nearly two years haying elapsed since the Metropolis Management
(Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act was passed,
empowering the Metropolitan Board of Works to enforce the
raising of the walls and banks of the River Thames, within the
Metropolis, and the execution of the necessary works to prevent
the overflow of the River, and no plans or specifications having
been delivered in conformity with the provisions of the Act, either
to the owners of riverain property or to this Board, the Board, in
April last, caused a letter to be addressed to the Metropolitan
Board, pointing out the great inconvenience and loss to which
owners of riverside property are subjected in consequence of the
delay, and strongly urging upon the Board the necessity of