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Pawson for the purpose of checking the weight of disinfectants
supplied and of weighing the quantities given out for distribu-
tion.
A new gas bracket has been fixed at the disinfecting station,
and the whole of the premises have been limewhited.
EAST LONDON WATER WORKS COMPANY.
A notice was received from the East London Water Company
of their intention to open and break up the wing walls of
the western side of the bridge carrying the Burdett Road over
the Limehouse Cut, for the purpose of laying a 24-inch steel
tube water main, forming part of a new 20-inch main, then being
laid by the Company from Mile end road through burdett
Road to the East and West India Dock Roads, to at to improve
the water supply in that portion of the district The board
made no objection to the carrying out of the works.
The Company afterwards applied for the sanction of the
Board to the erection of an unclimbable fence, about 6 feet
high, off the retaining wall of the bridge alongside the towing
path, and also a small length of spiked rails on the top of the
capstone of the buttress at the south end of the bridge,
tinuation and keeping with that on the top of the palisading, for
the purpose of preventing boys climbing over the bridge and on
to the new tube. The application was granted subject to the
approval by the Hoard of the plan of the proposed fence, etc
The Company laid a new 12-inch main on the north side of
Commercial Road East, between White Hone Street and the
Britannia Bridge and in connection therewith made an applica-
tion for permission to connect two wash-outs with the Board's
Hushing shaft and pulley drain at Barnes Street and Salmon
Lane, Limehouse, in accordance with a sketch which was submitted
to the Board. 1 he application was granted.
The Company reconstructed the main in Carr Street,
Limehouse, and fixed new hydrants in connection therewith.
A new 9-inch main was also laid in Commercial Road East, loan