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Board's Offices.
In December, 1897, several slight cracks and signs of
settlement made their appearance in certain portions of the
Board's premises. Examination of them led to the opinion
that they were caused by the operations of the Central
London Railway Company, in the construction of the new
railway beneath the public way of High Holborn. I
accordingly communicated with the Company whose
Contractors and Surveyors inspected them and had
several interviews with me upon the matter, and the
Company ultimately agreed to cut out and make good all
the damaged work; this the Company did in the month of
September, 1898, I accepting, on behalf of the Board,
a money payment of £30 to make good the decorative work
by your own tradesmen.
St. Giles Churchyard.
In March last, several of the footpaths in St. Giles
Churchyard sunk considerably, and hollows were formed
which held considerable quantities of water, and on
searching for the cause it was found that the drains
throughout nearly the whole lengths of the paths were in
bad repair, and blocked with solid matter, caused apparently
by the uneven subsidence of coffins and human remains in
the soil, in which the drains were laid. It accordingly
became necessary to take up and relay the whole of the
drains, which was done by the Board's workmen at a cost
of £81 12s. The paving over the trench has not yet been
made good, time being allowed for the ground to settle,
but the work of restoring the same will shortly be set in
hand.