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to keep the stoneyard of the St. Saviour's Guardians clear of broken
granite during the winter months, subject to its being properly
broken, at the usual price of 10/- per ton.
Street Orderly Sand Bins.— For the purpose of enabling the wood
and asphalte pavements in the parish to be sanded more expeditiously,
eight of these bins were purchased of Messrs. Beady & Co. in
December 1895 for the sum of £19 4s. 0d.
Removal of Snow.— On the 3rd April 1895 the Vestry decided to
take no action upon a letter from the Marylebone Vestry asking the
Vestry to concur in urging the Local Government Board to initiate
legislation with the object of reimposing the duty of cleansing the
footways, after a fall of snow, upon owners and occupiers of frontages
as it existed prior to the passing of the Public Health (London)
Act 1891, being of opinion that this duty, if left to the sanitary
authorities, might be the means of affording some employment
to a number of the unemployed during the winter months.
The following resolution was adopted on the 11th December
1895:—
That the Vestry concur in the views expressed in the resolution adopted at
a conference of the Guardians of St. Saviour's Union, the Bermondsey
and Rotherhithe Vestries, and St. Olave's Board of Works against
the practice of shooting snow into the Thames, thereby closing the
river to traffic and stopping the whole of the riverside labour.
Cleansing of Red Lion Mews. — The owners of the property in this
place having agreed to pay the sum of £12 per annum as the cost
of cleansing, the work was undertaken by the Vestry's staff of
scavengers at the close of the year.
Newington Causeway — Maintenance and Scavenging of. — The
boundary of the two parishes of Newington and St. George-theMartyr
in this thoroughfare was the subject of an application from
the latter on the 29th January 1896, asking the Vestry to join them
in requesting the London County Council to readjust the boundaries
for maintenance and cleansing purposes in Newington Causeway,
Borough High Street, Long Lane and Tabard Street. It was contended
that the original boundary line ran close to the footway kerb
on the west or St. George's side of the Causeway, whereas the
arrangement made between the two parishes in the year 1858 for