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tary Schools, or, as they are now called, Non-Provided Schools. 
In addition to the Elementary Education, they had to continue 
the Technical Education work, and powers were also given them 
to deal with Secondary Schools. This last work is being carried 
out by subsidising some of the Secondary Schools already in 
existence, and by building and maintaining schools of their 
own, while their Scholarship Scheme provides for the transfer of 
a large number of children from the Elementary to Secondary 
Schools. -There are eighteen London County Council Provided 
Schools in the Borough supplying nearly 20,000 school seats, and 
fourteen Non-Provided Schools with over 4,000 seats. The Council 
Schools are being added to shortly, and there is a new Non-Pro- 
vided School contemplated in the High Street connected with the 
Roman Catholics. There are also excellent Public Secondary 
Schools: Colfe’s Grammar School, St. Dunstan’s College, and a 
new school on the Hilly Fields established by the Council, all for 
boys; and for girls, the Blackheath High School, the Lewisham 
Grammar School, the Sydenham Secondary School, and Manor 
Mount School, Forest Hill. 
Lewisham is represented by two Councillors, but owing to its 
rapid growth it is now proposed to increase the number to four. 
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METROPOLITAN POLICE. 
In provincial towns the police force is generally controlled by 
a Watch Committee of the Town Council, but in London, outside 
the City boundaries, where the Corporation controls the police, the 
force is governed from the Home Office. The area for the Metro- 
politan Police work was first fixed by the Metropolitan Police Act 
of 1829, when certain parts of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey (not 
including the City of London) were constituted. A further Act ten 
years later provided for the addition of any further parts of the 
Central Criminal Court district being added by an order in Council, 
so that any place situated not more than fifteen miles in a straight 
line from Charing Cross may be placed under the supervision of 
the Metropolitan Police. The district at present contains 688 
square miles. The Police Acts provide for the necessary money 
for maintenance, etc., being obtained from the local rating 
authorities by warrants for sums payable out of the poor rates. 
The amount must not exceed a rate of gd. in the 4, and Parlia- 
ment bears one-quarter of the total cost. There are fourteen 
police-court divisions, with a court to each, Lewisham Borough 
being included in the Greenwich Division. 
METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD. 
Until quite recently the Borough was supplied with water by 
two distinct companies, the Kent Water Works in the eastern and 
