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residence; boiler and machinery house; wash-house for
70 to 80 women, with all usual conveniences; at a cost
which I roughly estimate at £6,500 to £7,000, inclusive of
the boilers and machinery, but not inclusive of the cost of
the site and buildings existing thereon.
The above mentioned baths would give accommodation
at one time in all for 110 to 130 persons in the men's
swimming baths, 40 to 45 persons in the men's hot baths,
16 persons in the women's swimming baths, and 20 Persons
in the women's hot baths.
Probably if the existing buildings were totally
unsuitable, the Commissioners would hesitate to give such
extensive and varied accommodation in this spot.
I have ascertained from the Vestry Surveyor that
there is a 3-ft. by 2-ft. brick sewer in the Sumner road,
sufficiently below the level of the surface of the roadway,
to insure suitable drainage from the baths, if constructed of
the same depth as is usual.
In the rough estimate given allowance is not made for
pumping or filtering the water. The Commissioners would
have to take into consideration whether it would be
cheaper (1) to purchase from the Water Company the very
large supply of water that will be required (about 10
million gallons per annum), (2) to sink a well, and pump
water as is done in many large establishments in London,
or (3) to take water from the canal and filter it by methods
similar to those adopted in the floating bath that was for
some years moored in the Thames by Charing Cross
Bridge. The determination of this point will depend very
much upon the terms offered by the Water Company.