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I am, however, directed to intimate that if the Police authorities still
harbour objections to the purposes to which the house is to be put, the Vestry
may entertain overtures from them for the purchase of the property.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Vestry.
The Secretary,
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
A further letter was subsequently received from the Secretary to the Local Government
Board stating that he had forwarded a copy of the above letter to the Home Office, but he
had received no further communication upon the subject; so it may be presumed that the
explanation furnished to the Local Government Board was satisfactory.
On 18th February, 1896, the Sanitary Committee reported having adjourned consideration
of the works necessary to be done to adapt 15 Cathay Street as a temporary shelter,
and having instructed the Surveyor to report as to the suitability of any portion of the
Vestry's premises at Bull Head Dock as a site for the erection of a temporary shelter.
On 3rd March, 1896, the Sanitary Committee reported that the Surveyor had submitted
to them two alternative plans for the erection of a shelter at Bull Head Dock.
Plan A, showing the shelter erected over the house to be provided for the caretaker of
the Depot, consisting on the first floor of day room, scullery, bath-room, w.c.,
and two bedrooms, and on the second floor three bedrooms and w.c., arranged
as cubicles, at an estimated cost of £450 in respect to such shelter.
Plan B, showing the shelter erected above the proposed cart shed which fronts
Rotherhithe Street, consisting of day-room, scullery, bath-room, and two w.c.
two bedrooms for married couples, and five other bedrooms, the whole arranged as
cubicles at an estimated cost of £300 in respect of such shelter.
And being of opinion that Bull Head Dock is a better position than 15, Cathay Street
for the shelter in question,