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3. That the Surveyor be requested to prepare plans and
specifications, and estimates of the cost of buildings,
machine, incinerator, &c.
On the 30th June, 1900, the Health Committee further
considered the subject, and submitted the following report,
which was adopted at the meeting of the Vestry on the
11th July.
Your Committee now recommend :—
(a) That immediate steps be taken to provide the
necessary means of carrying out steam disinfection
without the intervention of a Contractor.
(b) That a disinfection chamber, with duplex
machinery, be erected on land between the
proposed mortuary and the western wall of the
Vestry's Depôt, Sheepcote Lane, in accordance
with the plan prepared by the Surveyor, and that
it be referred to your Committee to prepare the
necessary detail drawings, specification, &C.
At a meeting of the Health Committee, held on the 27th
November, the Surveyor submitted the following estimate of the
cost of the works :—
Building £2,369 0 0
Two Steam Disinfectors 736 0 0
Two Vans 100 0 0
Bags, &c. 25 0 0
£3,230 0 0
and that Committee submitted the following report, which was
adopted by the Borough Council, on the 28th November.
Your Committee have considered detail drawings, specification,
and bills of quantities for the erection of a disinfecting