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Appointed by the Borough Council from
outside their own body (of whom one at
least should be a woman), but from
persons experienced in the relief of
distress 4
The order prescribed certain formalities to be observed
in the appointment of the Distress Committees, and these
having been duly complied with, the Council on the 18th
October, 1905, appointed the Committee.
A list of the members appointed is set out in the report
of the Distress Committee appended.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.
The competitive designs for the erection of the
public baths and washhouses, were received in April,
1905, from the six selected architects, named in the last
annual report, and upon the report of the Baths and
Washhouses Committee which, assisted by the Borough
Surveyor, adjudicated on the plans, the Borough Council,
on the 31st May, 1905, selected the design marked No. 4,
and appointed the author, Mr. J. Ernest Franck,
A.R.I.B.A., of No. 11 Pancras Lane, E.C., as the architect
of the buildings, subject to its being found possible
to carry out the work for the stipulated sum of ,£45,000.
Messrs. Dow, White and Gee were subsequently appointed
the surveyors to prepare the Bills of Quantities,
and tenders were invited by public advertisement for the
work. In response 36 tenders were received, the lowest
being that of Messrs. Charles Dearing and Son in the
sum of £45,000, which the Council accepted on the 1st
November, 1905.
Mr. Archibald Brown, of 13 Digby Mansions, was
appointed Clerk of Works of the buildings at a salary of
£5 per week, and no time was lost in starting the work,
which is now making good progress.
Application was made in due course to the Local
Government Board for sanction to the borrowing of