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next to impossible to get united action as to the manner of executing the
repairs, and the time at which the works involved shall be undertaken.
The Board is happy to be able to report that notwithstanding these
difficulties no accidents to the ordinary vehicular traffic have arisen.
Further referring to the report of last year, the Board has to state
it is still proceeding with its enquiry as to the practicability of washing
and cleansing the paved surfaces of the streets by water, and it indulges
in the hope that, prior to a new contract being entered into for street
sweeping, it will have thoroughly threshed out this problem, with the
view of improving the means now in use in regard to discharging this
portion of its duties.
As regards the scheme dealing with Brookes' Market, also referred to
in the Board's last report, the Board has now to inform the ratepayers that
the only progress made therewith was an enquiry on the part of the
London County Council whether the District Board favoured the view of
the whole of the cleared space being utilized as a recreation ground, or of
a portion being so dealt with, or whether the entire area should be
allocated to the erection of artizan's dwellings.
On this enquiry becoming known to the public, the Board was requested
to receive a large deputation of the inhabitants in and near the locus in quo,
who desired to express the view that the most desirable and profitable
manner of dealing with the land would be its being devoted as a site for
artizan's dwellings. The Board having heard the views of the deputation,
and having discussed the matter at great length, endorsed the opinion of
the inhabitants, and so informed the London County Council.
Nothing further, however, has been done, and the site still remains
unutilized. It is to be hoped that, during the financial year now entered
upon, the area in question will be put to profitable occupation.
Among the paving operations executed during the twelve months
ending Lady Day last, the Board has caused the carriageway of Chapel
Street to be re-laid with asphalte, in lieu of macadam as previously. By
so doing it has ensured a continuous surface of that material from
Theobald's Road to Lamb's Conduit Street by way of Great James Street
and Chapel Street, and has thus remedied what was previously complained
of namely, the dust or mud, as the case might be, from Chapel Street
being conveyed to the asphalted surfaces of Great James Street and Lamb's
Conduit Street.
Advantage was taken of the closing of the thoroughfare to lift and