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Streatham Hill
Tramways.
The extension of the tramways to the
Tate Public Library, referred to in the
last Annual Report, has been carried out, and the line
was opened for traffic in November last. Some of the
claims for compensation for property required for
carrying out the widening of the road, as decided upon
by the Board, have to be settled by a jury under the
provisions of the General (Metropolis) Paving Act,
1817, and owing to the pressure of business at the
Quarter Sessions only one of these cases has at present
been heard. The widening of the road has not therefore
yet been completed.
Water Supply
during Frost.
The Report of Major-General Scott on
the result of his Inquiry as to the water
supply during the severe frost of the early part of
1895 has been issued. The complaints made by the
memorialists were in general terms to the following
effect:—
1.—That the Companies had neglected to lay their mains, or
some of them, at a sufficient depth to protect them from
the effects of the frost.
2.—That the shallowness of the mains had necessarily led to the
laying of the communication pipes of the memorialists at
insufficient depth to afford protection from effects of frost.
3.—That the mains belonging to the Company, or some of them,
had decayed by lapse of time, and were not of sufficient
depth to withstand the stress which it is necesssary to
impose on them in order to conduct water to the consumers'
premises under the statutory pressure.
4.—That the Company did not take proper and sufficient measures
to place water within reasonable reach of the consumers,
or to convey water to them, when the supply by the ordinary
channels failed.
5.—That the Company did not exert and were not exerting due
diligence in carrying out repairs, and in restoring the supply
to the memorialists after the frost had ceased.
6.—That owing to these defects, or otherwise, the memorialists had
been without a proper supply of water for various periods
extending in some cases to two months.