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WORKS COMMITTEE.
UNION CRESCENT, NEW KENT ROAD.
The scheme for the amalgamation of the St. Olave's and St
Saviour's Grammar Schools being about to approach completion, and
the proposal for the erection of a Grammar School for Girls being pro
ceeded with, the Trustees and others having the management of the
matter entered into arrangements with Lord Llangattock for the
purchase of the property forming Union Crescent, New Kent Roar
and with the Trustees of Sayer and Shaw's Charity, for the purchase
of several houses in Buckenham Square, with a view to placing th
new school on that site. In connection with this proposal, a com
munication was received from the Clerk to the Trustees of St
Saviour's Grammar School, asking whether, in the event of the
purchase of the property from Lord Llangattock being completed
the Vestry would raise any question as to the ownership of the road
way in front of the Crescent.
Having regard to the resolution passed by the Vestry in 1896
favouring the retention of the new school in Southwark, it was detor
mined to offer no objection to the roadway being included in the
proposed scheme.
HOSING OF STREETS AND COURTS.
The question of the systematic hosing of the various streets and
courts in the parish, where filth is likely to accumulate, was on severa???
occasions under the consideration of the Vestry, on suggestions con???
tained in the reports of the Medical Officer of Health. The large
expense likely to be incurred in this work had hitherto deterred the
Vestry from taking action, but on the 19th December, 1899, the Work:
Committee recommended, as an experiment only, that six hydrant
and meters should be obtained and fixed in Borough High Street, fron
Union Street to St. George's Church, for the hosing of that portion o???
the street and the courts leading off the same, and that the price o???
the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company for the necessary hy???
drants and meters should be accepted.
This recommendation was adopted by the Vestry, and the result
so far, has proved the wisdom of the policy adopted.