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purpose of enabling such dwellings to be disinfected by the Sanitary
Authority, were not required to be so used.
During the year the Board registered eleven houses in the
Parish of Greenwich, and eighteen in the Parish of Saint Paul,
Deptford, as Lodging Houses, under the Bye-laws made by the
Board, under the provisions of Section 94 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, with respect to houses let in lodgings, or
occupied by members of more than one family.
During the year the Board acquired certain land in Greenwich
Marshes for the purposes of the Parish of Greenwich, and
notice was given to the tenants of such land to terminate their
tenancy.
The new street, from Evelyn Street to Creek Road, formed
by the London County Council under the provisions of the
London Council (General Powers) Act, 1891, having been completed,
was, under the powers of that Act, placed under the care,
management, control and jurisdiction of the Board.
During the year the Board carried out an improvement by
opening up the northern end of Watson Street, Deptford, and
carrying through that street as a public thoroughfare into Douglas
Street, thereby forming a new line for vehicular traffic, running
parallel with High Street and connecting the New Cross Road
with Douglas Street. Another improvement in connection with
the one before mentioned, by widening the passage leading from
High Street to Watson Street, is now in progress.
During the year the Board took over from the Metropolitan
Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association the whole of
the fountains and troughs previously maintained by that Associa-