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138 2 OCTOBER 1891.
(1) That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for which
your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report Book.
That your Surveyor submitted and your Committee
sidered and Estimate, for the half-year ending Lady Day
next as follows:
Advertisements £8
Disinfectants 35
Gully grates, &c. 55
Garments for sewer men 15
Infectious diseases 70
Jobbing sewers' work 450
Labour, disinfecting 95
„ cleansing sewers 225
Mortality returns 15
Oil, candles, &c. 11
Tools, &c. 20
Timber 5
Urinals 5
Works of reparation, sewers 100
Water for flushing 184
£1,293
(2) That your Surveyor reported that he had received notices
from the following persons of their intention to drain the
following houses and premises into the sewers, viz.:
Hearle & Farrow Nos. 52 & 54, Rhodeswell Road;
Hosking, G. J. Hertford Place, Globe Road;
Davis Bros Nos. 24 to 52, Bedford Street;
and that on behalf of your Board he had given such directions
with respect to the same as appear by his Books and the plans
submitted.
Your Committee approved of his proceedings and submit
same for confirmation by your Board.
(3) That with regard to the application of Messrs. Davis Bros,
your Medical Officer of Health and Surveyor stated that the
plans showed that it was contemplated to build workshops
in the rear of the premises, leaving only a small space (16 ft.
by 8 ft.) between each house and workshop.
That your Medical Officer being of opinion that the workshops
if so built would render the premises in such a state so
dangerous to health as to be unfit for human habitation under
the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, when approving
plan of drainage your Surveyor gave notice to the applicants,
of the Medical Officer's opinion and the probable
results.