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carriage-way to be widened so as to allow of two vehicles
passing at the spot.
The public ways of Brewer Street and the eastern end of
Shelton Street have been closed under order of the Justices
of the Peace on the application of Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode,
to whom the land has been given up.
The London Hydraulic Power Company, with the permission
of your Board, laid further lines of mains in Charing
Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road.
Disinfecting Apparatus.
The disinfecting apparatus which was erected by Messrs.
Fraser & Co in the year 1870, and consisted of a large
chamber into which clothes requiring disinfection were
wheeled in an iron truck, the disinfection being effected by
hot air and the fumes of sulphur, produced in a furnace
beneath the chamber, having become worn out and beyond
repair, the question of its reconstruction or the adoption of
some other process of disinfection was referred by your
Board to its Sanitary Committee. After giving very lengthy
consideration to the subject and inspecting two apparatus,
one patented by Mr. Washington Lyon and the other
by Messrs. Gordon & Massey, in both of which the process
of disinfection was somewhat similar, being effected by
super-heated steam, your Committee ultimately selected that
of Washington Lyon, and a Contract was entered into with
Messrs. Manlove, Alliott, & Co., its manufacturers, for the
erection of the apparatus on the site of the old one which was
removed. The work was completed and the disinfector
put into operation in the month of July last. It has