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application was directed to be made to the London County Council
for a loan of £4250, to be taken up on the following 1st October.
The Council reduced the amount by £200, which they understood
to be establishment charges, and offeied to giant a loan of
£4050. This loan was accepted by the Vestry on the 21st July, the
conditions of repayment being by annual instalments of principal and
interest on the balance outstanding for a period of twenty yeais.
The Council subsequently agreed to grant a loan of £200 to defray
the cost of the salaries of the Draughtsman and Clerk of Works, if
the same were added to the next loan applied for.
The Surveyor was instructed to proceed with the work on the
6th September, 1898, and, at the same meeting, the mortgage for the
money was sealed by the Vestry.
Re-laying of
Sewers.
The Vestry, at the suggestion of the Committee, directed the
following sewers, to be relaid out of current expenditure,
at the undermentioned estimated cost:—
£ s. d.
Borough Road, from St. George's Circus to
opposite the New Free Library 73 10 0
Borough Road, from the Library to Lancaster
Street 278 0 0
Rear of 46 to 54, Marcia Road 52 0 0
Boundary Sewer from Emary Street to Westminster
Bridge Road 50 0 0
(£25 being paid by the Lambeth Vestry).
A serious case of typhus fever occurred at 20, Toulmin Street, at
Typhus Fever.Easter, 1898.during the absence of the Medical Officer
on vacation; but, by the prompt and vigorous action of
Dr. Smith, who acted as Dr. Waldo's locum tenens, and Dr. Massie,
the medical attendant on the patient, every precaution was taken to
prevent the spread ot the disease, with great success; and, as a mark
of their appreciation of the efforts of the two Doctors, the Vestry
passed a resolution on the 15th April, 1898, placing on record their
high appreciation of the skill and vigilance displayed by them in thus
preventing the spread of the disease.