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LONDON, CAMBERWELL AND DULWICH TRAMWAYS' BILL.
This Bill which proposed to give the Company power to
construct a Tramway from the "King's Arms" P. H., Peckham
rye, to Forest hill Cemetery, and also further powers with respect
to the route down Rye lane, received the approval of the Yestry,
and after passing through the Commons was thrown out by the
House of Lords' Committee.
TUBLIC BATHS AND BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
"The Vestry having resolved on 16th February, 1887, that
it is desirable to establish Public Baths and Wash-houses in the
Parish of Camberwell, appointed a Committee to consider the
best means of giving effect to such resolution. This Committee
in their Report to the Yestry stated that it did not come within
the province of the Committee to enter into the many and weighty
reasons which in their opinion might be urged in favour of the
adoption of the Public Baths and Wash-houses Act in the
Parish, further than to state, that after careful consideration
the Members had come to the conclusion that, regarding the
extent of the Parish and its large and increasing population, the
present bathing accommodation is altogether inadequate and is
beyond the means of vast numbers of the people for whom the
Act specially provides.
The Committee in the first instance, entered into communication
with other Parishes which had adopted the Act, and
obtained much valuable information, including the cost of
erection and maintenance of their establishments, and how
defrayed, and to what extent the Baths and Wash-houses are
used. It was gratifying to the Committee to find that in the
majority of cases the Commissioners report an excess of receipts
over working expenses, and were unanimously of opinion that the
d option of the Act had been a great boon to their Parishes.