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arrangement with Mr. George Tyrie, his contract for supply of
bass brooms has been extended for another year on the
same terms and conditions as under the late contract. A list
of these and other subsisting contracts will be found at page 90.
By arrangement with the Borough Market Trust the price to
be paid for the cleansing of the Market has been raised from
£550 to £600 per annum.
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
A circular-letter was received from the Vestry of Islington
stating that the Vestry had been advised that the provisions of
the Metropolis Management Act and of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, with reference to drainage and sanitary
arrangements generally do not apply to government buildings,
and urging that in the interests not only of the occupiers of
such buildings, but of the health of the community at large
such buildings should no longer be exempt. The Board concurred
and caused a letter to be written to the Local Government
Board in support of that view.
SUPERANNUATION BILLS.
The Board presented a petition to Parliament in favour of
the Superannuation (Metropolis) Bill and the Local Authorities
Officers' Superannuation Bill, subject to the adoption of a
suggestion by the Camberwell Vestry that they should be so
extended as to include workmen in the regular employ of the
local authorities.
The object of the first-named Bill was to bring the provisions
of the Metropolis Superannuation Act, 1866, relative to
the Superannuation of Officers of Vestries and District Boards,
into line with those of the Poor Law Officers by requiring the
Officers of such Vestries, Boards, etc. to contribute from their
salaries and wages a percentage allowance to a fund from which
their retiring allowance would in future be paid.
The other Bill applied to the whole of England and Wales
and included therefore the Metropolis. Its object was to extend
to officers and servants in the service of local authorities the
provisions of the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act, 1896,
by which Parliament granted to officers and servants under the
poor law, in return for a percentage contribution from their
salaries and emoluments, superannuation when they become
unable to discharge their duties by reason of permanent infirmity
of mind or body or of old age. The term "servant"
was defined to mean "every servant appointed by resolution of
a local authority."