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Your Board considered that the proposed amalgamation,
by removing the element of comparison of charges for gas
lighting between two Companies, was undesirable and
opposed to the interests of the ratepayers of the Metropolis.
Resolutions to this effect were forwarded to the Board
of Trade, who ultimately declined to confirm the scheme.
The price of gas for public lamps in the district was
reduced on the 1st of January, 1884, to 2s. 8d. per 1,000
feet, at which price it now stands.
Chalets de Toilette et de Necessite,
In 1880, application was made to your Board for permission
to erect Chalets, for convenience of men and women,
in certain public ways of your District. The sites proposed
for such Chalets being in High Holborn, at its junction
with New Oxford Street, and in Broad Street near to
Bloomsbury Street. Skeleton models of the proposed
erections were at that time placed on those sites, in order
to judge of the extent of public way that would be occupied
by the proposed structures, and their effect on the public
traffic. Your Board, after lengthy consideration of the
subject at that time, resolved not to sanction their erection.
In October last, application was again made by the
Chalet Company, to erect a Chalet in Broad Street, at the
same site as that before proposed. The matter was again
fully considered, and your Board again resolved not to
sanction such erections within the District.
Water Supply.
A Bill was introduced into Parliament by the Corporation
of the City of London, by which the Water Companies
supplying the Metropolis were to be bound to supply water