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owners of strips of ground in New Street, Adam Street and Delaune
Street, to be thrown into the public way.
Metropolitan Asylums Board.— On the 11th December 1895 the
Vestry appointed Mr. Dawes to represent it on the deputation to
the Local Government Board relative to the constitution and
administration of the Asylums Board, proposed by the Vestry of
Marylebone as a result of the conference which had taken place on
the question.
The following resolution was adopted on the 22nd January
1896:—
That the Vestry concur in the following resolution passed by the Vestry
of St. Pancras, viz:—
That the Local Government Board be asked to hold an inquiry
and take evidence as to the present administration of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board: such inquiry to include its
constitution, the mode of election and scope of duties, its
largely increasing yearly expenditure, and its failure to
provide for the requirements of the local sanitary
authorities,—
and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Local
Government Board.
Bakehouses.—In December 1895 the London County Council wrote
directing attention to Section 27 of the Factory and Workshop Act
1895, which came into operation on the 1st January 1896, and prohibited
the use of any underground bakehouses except such as were
actually in use at the commencement of the Act; and in accordance
with the suggestion made by the Council a complete record or
register of all bakehouses in the parish was prepared by the Medical
Officer of Health.
Licences for Cow and Slaughter-houses.—The following licences
were granted by the London County Council on the 21st October
1895, in respect of premises situated in this parish:—