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for £105, and on an application being made by the
Vestry to the Metropolitan Board of Works, that Board
agreed to contribute a sum of £52 10s. Od. towards the
improvement.
Negotiations were also undertaken with a view of
obtaining a portion of the site of the houses, and the
freeholders offered to the Vestry a strip of land 186 feet
in length, and of an average width of 6 feet 6 inches, in
all a little more than 1200 superficial feet, for a sum of
£2800. The Vestry being of opinion that the sum asked
was excessive declined the offer.
During the year 500 fire hydrants have been fixed
by the East London "Water Works Company, by order
of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The restoration
of the roadways and footways, after the fixing of the
hydrants, has been a source of considerable labour, and
has been principally done by the workmen of the
Vestry, the cost of the work being included in the sum
of £1127 7s. 10d., which the Company paid for repairing
trenches.
Fire
Hydrant.
Tho amounts paid by the Water and Gas Companies
for the repairs to trenches opened during the year are as
follows:-
Gas Light and Coke Co £195 18 6
Commercial Gas Co 18 13 2
East London Water Works Co. 1127 7 10
Total £1341 19 6
Trendies.
This amount, as compared with previous years, shows
a large increase, which is accounted for by the fixing of
fire hydrants by the East London Water Works
Company.