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With regard to Scavenging and Dusting, the lists of streets
and places have been carefully revised ; all those which were
scheduled for cleansing and dusting twice weekly being now
required to be attended to three times, and others have, in
many instances, been marked for more frequent attention than
under the late Contracts.
Finances.
Ill order to meet the estimated expenditure for local purposes
during the financial year ending 25th March, 1892, and
the demands of the School Board for London for the same
period, the following demands by Precept have been made
upon the Overseers, viz:—

In May last, the Board borrowed of the London County
Council, the sum of £1,200, towards defraying the cost of repaving,
with granite pitching, a portion of the carriageway
of the Borough High Street at the foot of London Bridge, and
the work will shortly be carried out. Application has also
been made to the Council for a loan of £1,600 towards
defraying the cost of wood paving works in the same thoroughfare.
Obituary.
Within the short period of a month, the Board had to
mourn the loss, by death, of three of its oldest and most
respected members, viz., Mr. Josiah Hale, Chairman of the
Paving and General Purposes Committee; Mr. Richard Hunt,
Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, and Mr. John Palmer,
who had been a member of the Board since the year 1874. In
each case the Board passed a resolution expressive of its deep and
sincere regret, and of condolence with the family and friends
of the deceased in their bereavement.
W. H. ATKINS.
Board Room,
Emerson Street, Bankside, S.E.
August, 1891.