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St Saviour's (Southwark) 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]

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St. Sabiour's District Board of Works.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 1888-9,
by the
CLERK, SURVEYOR, MEDICAL OFFICER,
INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES AND ANALYST;
Also Account in Abstract of Sums received and expended by
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.
By the of the Local Government (England and Local
Government
Wales) Act, 1888 (51 and 52 Vict., c. 41), the Metropolitan Act, 1888.
Board of Works has ceased to exist, and the London County
Council has been established in its place. The mode of
election being by direct vote of the ratepayers, the power
which this Board possessed, under the Metropolis Local
Management Act, of appointing a representative ceases, and,
in common with other District Boards and Vestries, it is now
without any official representation whatever. Two of its
Members, however, Mr. Alderman Haggis and Mr. J. G.