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Town Road has been much improved by the relaying of the drains and
putting into the road the forecourt of the houses on the lower part of the
southern side. Church Street from " Rowantree," the residence of Councillor
LeMare, to Ridge Road is being widened to 50 feet and Angel Road near
Montagu Road also.
In January the Local Government Board approved of two loans amounting
to £1,520 at 4½ per cent. for the purpose of resurfacing The Green. The west
side was laid with roadament and the rest with Trinidad asphalte macadam.
In March the work was in hand and completed in April at a cost of about
£1,890.
Silver Street and the bridge passing over Pymmes Brook have been widened
to 60 feet. This involved taking a slip of ground from Pymmes Park. Further
improvement is here contemplated at an ultimate cost of about £11,200.
In April, a strip of garden and orchard was taken into Bury Street at the
front of the Nursing Home to enlarge the road at two very awkward corners.
The name " Folkestone Road," formerly distinguished as a street running to
ali points of the compass, is now extinguished, in so far as it is now restricted to
the north side, the east side has been called Sandgate Road and the south and
west sides have been transferred to Lyndhurst Road.
WATER SUPPLY.
The district generally is supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board (New
River area). The only house for which the public supply is not at present
available is a farmhouse in Firs Lane ; there is also one group of forty-five
houses in Sutherland Road supplied by shallow wells about 20 feet deep.
Water from the wells at Bunces farm, Firs Lane, 370, Fore Street and several
houses in Sutherland Road were examined by Professor Kenwood, of University
College, and certified as unfit for domestic purposes. Notices were served on
the owners, under section 62 of the Public Health Act, 1875, to obtain and
maintain a sufficient supply of good water to these [premises. In May, samples
from further wells in Sutherland Road were taken and as the analyses were not
satisfactory, I was instructed to press the owner of all these houses to negotiate
for a supply from the mains of the Metropolitan Water Board ; this was not
completed by the end of the year. The water supply of Messrs. Ridley and
Whitley's factory is taken from the River Lea, and purified on the premises
before use. At Eley's works a water of excellent quality is obtained from an
artesian well 400 feet deep.