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Church, having become dangerous, and being, in the
opinion of the Board's officers, incapable of repair, has,
with the sanction of the Ecclesiastical Authorities, and in
pursuance of a Faculty, been removed. The tablet bearing
the inscription has been placed in the entrance to St.
Giles Church and the remaining portion of the monument
buried in the churchyard.
Previous to the removal of the monument a photograph
of the same was taken by the Board's instructions and has
been placed in the Board Room.
Dusting, Slopping, and Watering Contracts.
The period for which the Board had entered intocontracts
with Mr. George Cookson, for the removal of
house refuse and slop, and for watering and washing the
streets in the District, expiring at Lady Day, 1896, the
Board referred the question of whether the contracts
should be renewed or the work done without the intervention
of a contractor to a special Committee consisting of the
Members of the Sanitary and Works Committees, who held
several Meetings and considered the whole subject; and
having had laid before them Reports showing the comparative
cost of executing the work in the District, and in other
districts in London, unanimously recommended the Board
not to undertake the work without the intervention of a
contractor, but that the system under which the work had
been hitherto carried out should, with certain modifications,
be adhered to. These recommendations dealt with
matters of detail but of great importance, and the whole
of them were adopted by the Board, and advertisements
having been issued, Mr. Cookson's tender (which was the