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time had no proper place. The Board approved the sketch plan
and I was requested to prepare detailed plans and specifications
in accordance with my report.
The necessary plans and specifications were prepared and
approved by the Hoard and ordered to be carried into execution.
The tender of Messrs. Manlove, Alliott & Co., for supplying a
Washington Lyon's Steam Disinfector was also accepted. I was
directed on the 22nd March, to submit the plans to the Local
Government Hoard for approval, which was done, but no reply
had been received up to the date of the closing of this Report.
I have communicated with the owners of certain premises
with a view to the acquisition thereof by the Hoard as a place of
refuge for persons compelled to leave their homes during the
disinfection of the same. Up to the present time, however, the
Hoard has been unable to come to any decision upon the subject.
OWNERLESS LAND.
On the 27th April, 1892, the Board resolved as follows:—
"That, having regard to the fact that there arc in the
District several plots of land with or without houses thereon,
for which no owners can be found and which arc used for such
purposes as to cause them to be nuisances to the neighbourhood,
the London County Council be asked to obtain Parliamentary
powers to enable the Local Authority to take possession of
such land and houses for the benefit of the ratepayers."
"That a copy of the foregoing Resolution be sent to the
several District Boards and Vestries in the Metropolis with a
request for an expression of an opinion thereon."
Copies of the first Resolution was sent as directed, and many
Local Authorities passed Resolutions to the same effect, but
the County Council replied expressing the opinion that the
better course would be for the Hoard itself to seek Parliamentary
powers if they were thought desirable. Upon this the Board
informed the Council that they entirely dissented from such