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Improvements.
Several improvements, although not of a large nature,
yet of considerable local importance, have been under
consideration during the past year. They consist of the
widening and improvement of Little Coram Street and
Little Guilford Street, which are proposed to be incorporated
as one thoroughfare under the name of Herbrand Street,
where the necessary improvement has been carried out in
consequence of the co-operation of His Grace the Duke of
Bedford. An improvement in Portsmouth Street by the
setting back of the line of frontage of the George the IV.
public house is now in process of being carried out. This,
with the further adjustment of the frontage of adjoining
property, will eventually increase the width of Portsmouth
Street to 30ft, and it is hoped that at some future time
it may be possible to widen the whole thoroughfare up
to Lincoln's Inn Fields so as to form a more adequate
means of access to King's College Hospital and the
Royal Courts of Justice than at present exists.
A suggestion was also made for the adjustment of the
line of frontage on the west side of Southampton Row
between Vernon Chambers and Cosmo Place, but in consequence
of the refusal of the Building Act Committee of
the London County Council to sanction the scheme nothing
came of the matter.
Another improvement, which has engaged attention
and which, although not strictly within the District yet is
of great importance to it, received anxious consideration
at the hands of the Board. It was the deposit by the