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25 JUNE, 1890. 103
11th day of June, in respect of the house and premises
known as 23, Eagle Place, under the provisions of the
Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings' Act, 1868.
The complaint contained in the said report of the
Medical Officer of Health is—
That the roof is defective.
The staircase is defective.
There is no proper ventilation beneath the floor
boards.
The floor boards are decayed.
The walls are dilapidated.
The cause of the complaint is the age of the house and
the original defective construction.
The remedy lor the said complaint is to repair the
root, To repair the treads and risers and other portions
of the staircase. To construct ventilation flues beneath
the floor boards. To repair the floor boards. To take
out the damaged and dilapidated portions of the walls
and replaster same.
If these works be executed, it will not, in my opinion,
be necessary to demolish the said house in order to
remove the complaint contained in the said report of the
Medical Officer of Health.
I am, &c.,
{Signed) JNO. M. KNIGHT,
An Engineer appointed to report
on the said house under the
provisions of the said Act.
Moved by Mr. Cushen, seconded by Mr. Coker, and
resolved—That copies of the reports of the Medical Officer of
Health and Surveyor, on the subject of the houses and
premises Nos. 5, 9, 19, 21, 58, 66, and 68, Knott Street, and
23, Eagle Place, be furnished by the Clerk to the owners of
such houses respectively, and that the Vestry proceed to consider
the same at the Vestry Hall, on Wednesday, the 9th day
of July next, at 7.15 p.m. o'clock, and that the several owners
be informed thereof.
XIII. The Clerk read a letter, dated 16th inst, from the London
County Council, stating that as copies of the addresses ot the
Chairman of the Council had been supplied to each member
of the Vestry, the Council did not consider it necessary to
have a large number of copies of their Annual Report printed.
XIV. The Clerk submitted letters from the Vestry of Chelsea,
and from the London County Council, on the subject ot the
proposed re-modelling ot the administrative areas into which
London is divided, the Vestry ot Chelsea in their communication
inviting the Vestry to appoint delegates to a conference
to consider the matter to be held on the 26th inst.