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obvious, and only in two other of the designs sent in has this
been done.
A good entrance is given for each sex placed on either
side of a central Pay Office, with ticket hatches on each side,
for the several classes, and for each class of Private Baths,
convenient waiting rooms are provided.
The Boiler room and fuel store is of ample size, and an
excellent service Laundry is also provided, both these
departments being in the Basement Floor of the Front
Building.
The cube contents of their design are estimated at
593,072 feet, and their estimate is £14,225, or at the rate of
5¾d. a foot. The cube I find practically correct, but I doubt
whether a rate of 5¾d. will be found enough, although I am
aware that like establishments have been completed at a cost
within that rate, and Messrs. Spalding and Cross express their
willingness to undertake to obtain a tender from a trustworthy
Contractor within their estimate, and refer to the
Public Baths lately erected at Hampstead from their designs
in confirmation of this.
The drainage of the Swimming Baths is taken into the
Effra sewer that of the front building in the sewer under
the front road.
If this design is adopted there are one or two minor
particulars as to plan with regard to which I think some
improvement might be made.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
CHARLES BARRY.
P.S.—I may inform the Commissioners that in all