The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

An adjourned spulal meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Works was held on Tuesday at Guildhall, for
the purpose of further considering the financial state-
ment, and to as-ess moneys on the several parts of the
metropoli=, for de!raying the expenses of the board is
the execution of the Metropolis Local Management Act;
Mr. J. Triwaites in the chair.
Mr. TURNER moved that the fir,tt column of the finan-
cial statement which fixed the rateable value of the pro-
perty on the basis of the county-rate assessment be
adopted.
Agreed to.
The total ratesblo value of the several districts was
flxod at 11,283,6631.
A resolution Will then passed approving an appott'on-
merit of the outstanding Liao of 140,0001. for main
intercepting drainage works.
A resolution was passed approving tbe total estimated
liabilities of the different districts at 442,9021. 12e. The
following estimated expenses of the board for the year
ending oe 31-t of Doe., 1856, were then agreed to :
Establishment c'iarges, including compensation allow-
°axes, 24,0971. lls. 51. ; instalment and interest on
main intercepting drainage loan of 140,0001., 12,9351. ;
for interest on loans contracted and annuities, and re-
tiring allowances ..;ranted by the late Metropolitan Com-
missioners of Sewers, 15,2271. 12a. 61. ; sums required
for works of sewerage, 18 0061. 3s. ; total estimated ex-
pense fo• the year, 70,3161. 64. 11,1. ; amount to be
raisel for repayment of loans and mortgagee, 14,1151. ;
n
rrl eeoici,moioue/rd.l mrt,,o:t total
the
ehf
differenta go charge for fo r repaidptahrei s
byte:se
andr9rid, 4ijsatlrlCi
0. .t;sPahmereocuthhtell
year 1856, 98-4571. 83. 101. •
The following is the amount in the pound which wilt
be required from the several parishes :—City of Lon-
(bl
eotnh,, 131413..;; egbtfonn,,e,oll;
s;hSotr.e :it:her:so
a,•
dLd ainmg-.
ton, lid. ; Bethnal-green. 0 ; Newington, Surrey,
311. ; Camberwell, 34d. ; St. James's, Westminster,
Ifd ; Cl .rkenwe:l, 0 ; Chelsea, 211 ; Kennington,
54(1, ; flackn-,v, Id. ; St. Giles s, 14d. ; Holborn,
ld. ; Strand, 4d. ;Fulham, 10d. ; Luuehouse, j4d, ;
Poplar, ; St. Savir,:driltown3l;l
metead
7?,d ; LIFIVV'EthaIR, 1841. ; S . Luke's, Middlein,x, 0 ; St.
George's, S.,uthwark, 33d. ; Bermondsey, 34(1. • St.
George's-in-the-East, 11d. ; St. Martin's-in-the-Ilads
111. ; Hamlet of Mile-end 0
NwVictitiCectit... ;1
IRl'l.t:lkWeri-ettioelios3tdr: 1; 41 ; Greenwich, Hampstead,:l :
11.
Wan
of td
inn, 2144. ;141.PdIve.i,-11;:dt;le1T34:1'1.1n.;:le8e,itcs:. eglninidle.t:,-TCGet:rnaupyrcl'et!
Stapie-inn, 141. ; Furnivars-inn, 14d.
A resolution to assess the sums specified was carried.
It was °then moved by Mr. DOULTON that precepts for
obtaining payment of the same he issued. To t iis an
amendment was moved by Mr. BRISTOWE, test precepts
to issue to ass-es the districts for the currenti ex
the board only, and to defer the the lag
P
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moving
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herepaymentear:seus eotnf
,taeblbsoeoavunei
should
have
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parishes
g lagte U
opportunity m rmoe
fci smP-
rieved inpeernetss
ntil
. Parliament upon the matt e
uture,,tion,
IwB.hen there appeared,
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The original mo-
tion was then put
dhaeogaciarriegdt,it,Pand the precepts were
fmo radti ee Crea
tHtnuAerlni ißaolibu illeNnotp,n the 30th May.

r.BEVENTION OF PITTING-IN SMALL PDX.—Mr, Startle,
the senior surgeon to the Gurney Hospital for Diseases
of the Skin, has communicated to the Medical 7inaes a
very import nt plan, which he has adopted during the
last 14 years, for preventing pitting in small-pox, and
which, he states, has always proved successful. The
plan consists in applying the acetum cantharidis, or any
.
vesicating fluid, by means of a camel hair brush to the
apex of each spot or pustule of the disease, on all the
exposed surfaces of the_ body, until blistering is evi-
denced by the whiteness of the skin in the parts sub.
jec'ed.to the application, when the fluid producing it
Is to be washed off with water or thin arrowroot gruel.
The pain attending the application of the visicating fluid
i very slight and transient.