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MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 11house drainage 'system, now completed over a largepart of the city, consumed $76,291.12, the total expendituresto date on this work having been $241,-069.87. In street paving there were expenditures of$59,703.19; in street opening, $43,795.27; in pavingsidewalks, $13,426.71, and in other forms of betterments$8,398, a total of $201,614.29, out of an entire• disbursement for the year of $866,798.36. Deductingthe fixed charges of bond payments and interest onthe funded debt, amounting to $203,305.33, it isfound that about thirty per cent, of the city's expenditureswere for a class of work that redounds tothe future advantage of all citizens. The year alsobrought expenses in the administration of some departmentsthat could not be foreseen and were accordinglynot provided for in the budget. In the healthdepartment, where a restriction of expenses wouldoften be at the cost of the public health, the allowancewas inadequate, and there was an overdraft of$1,500; in incidentals the excess of expenditures was$700 but charged to this item was probably nearly$1,000 disbursed in charity, no provision havingbeen made by Council for the relief of necessitouscases. In house drainage the budget was overdrawn$21,000, it being deemed advisable to push the workunder way to completion, and in street paving theyear's figures show an outlay of $15,000 more thanthe appropriation and the receipts from propertyowners. In the last-mentioned department therewere considerable supplies purchased for West Broadstreet and not yet used, which constitute an availableasset in the work of the department for 1902.