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of new Board and Committee Rooms, with the New Entrance
from High Holborn, have been completed, and the whole of
the premises are now in use.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court.
These buildings were commenced within the year, and
are now nearly completed.
New Streets to be formed by Metropolitan Board of
Works.
In 1877 the Metropolitan Board of Works obtained
an Act of Parliament, known as the Metropolitan Street
Improvement Act, 1877, which authorized that Board to
form certain new streets and effect other Improvements
within the metropolis; amongst them are two new streets
which are partly within the St. Giles District. 1. A new
street, commencing in New Oxford Street, near to Duke
Street, proceeding thence, in a south-westerly direction,
across Thorney Street, Vine Street, Bloomsbury Street,
and Broad Street, to the north end of Dudley Street, and
thence, by the widening of Dudley Street on its southeastern
side, to Moor Street, where it will leave the St.
Giles District, and continue by way of King Street and
Richmond Street, crossing Rupert Street, Windmill Street,
and Tichborne Street, to a junction with Regent Circus,
Piccadilly. 2. A new line of street, commencing in Oxford
Street at its junction with Tottenham Court Road, thence
by the widening of Crown Street, on its eastern side, to
Moor Street, where it crosses the other new street just
described, and leaving St. Giles District proceeds southwards
across Grafton Street, Titchfield Street, Prince's