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The Finance Committee, however, on the suggestion of
Mr. Ashmole, came to our assistance at the most critical moment
and the Committee were at last enabled to proceed to invite
tenders without any loan at all having to be raised.
The Treasurer advised his Committee how ways and means
for paying for the building out of the current rate could be
provided. We were thus freed from the expense of a loan, and
resultant public enquiry, as well as other restrictions of a more
or less vexatious nature.
THE NEW STATION.
After a few other comparatively minor troubles, chiefly in
connection with Party Walls, Notices, &c., we were at last
enabled, in May, to proceed with our New Buildings, which
provide everything requisite for a modern and up-to-date
disinfecting station.
In place of the old boiler and an obsolete apparatus crammed
into a dark and badly arranged corner of the yard, we shall
have :—
(a) Two new boilers of a capacity of six horse power each.
(b) One entirely new Washington Lyon Disinfector of
full size, and fitted with all modern improvements,
including the vacuum hot-air exhaust.
(c) The old disinfecting apparatus completely modernised
and fitted up with exhaust vacuum and other improvements,
rendering it a most useful machine for future
work.
(d) The two parts of the station completely separated, the
clean from the infected side, and each side provided
with a bath, a lavatory, and sanitary conveniences.
(e) Accommodation for both clean and infected trucks in
properly separated yards, external to the station.
(f) A modern well-equipped Incinerator for the destruction
of foul bedding and other articles, as well as the
destruction of unsound articles of food seized by the
Inspectors within the Borough.