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GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE
REPORT.
Fire Alarms,
Dulwich.
Your Committee considered a letter from
the Fire Brigade Committee of the London County
Council with reference to the wires to the Fire Alarms for
the proposed Dulwich Fire Station which the Vestry
has required to be laid underground. The Clerk to the
Council states "that since the decision of the Vestry the
Committee asked the Post Office to furnish an estimate of
the annual charge for ten fire alarms to be connected with
the new fire engine station to be built in Lordship Lane.
The position of the proposed fire alarms are given, two
have been fixed for some time and have been connected
with other stations, but it is proposed now to connect them
with Dulwich, the nearest station. It is also intended to
provide another fire alarm in Bellenden Road in connection
with the Camberwell Station. The Post Office has
furnished the estimate required for the ten fire alarms, and
lor overhead wires the charge will be £105, and of the call
point in Bellenden Koad, £10 15s. but that if underground
wires be used the respective annual charge will be £190 10s.
and £21 15s. The Post Office has intimated that the
Vestry of Camberwell has declined to allow overhea I wires
to be used, and that other local authorities, who at first
refused to allow wires for fire alarms to be placed overhead