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of Mr. H. H, Collins, and this report was approved by the
Special Committee appointed to consider the matter and unanimously
adopted by the Vestry. Mr. H. H. Collins was accordingly
appointed Architect, and tenders for the erection of the building
upon quantities taken out by Messrs. Gardiner, Son, and Theobald,
of 110, Great Russell Street, were invited from seventeen firms
of builders, each of whom sent in a tender. Certain modifications
were subsequently made in the quantities, and the tender of Mr.
Mark Gentry, of 2, Wormwood Street, in the City of London, to
carry out the work on the revised quantities for the sum of
£5,573 was accepted. The Land upon which the building is to
be erected is held on lease from Sir Richard Francis Sutton, Bart.,
for the term of 03 years from the 24th June, 1885, at a ground
rent of <£50 per annum ; the original ground rent of £75 having
been reduced by Sir R. F. Sutton in consideration of the object
for which the building was to be erected. The building is designed
to comprised 23 single room tenements, 12 two room
tenements, two rooms for the caretaker, and a general washhouse
and work room. The work is commenced in the hope that it will
benefit the poorer of the labouring classes in the parish, to an
ever increasing extent, as the surplus rents admit of an extension
of the operations of the Trust.
REGISTERED HOUSES.
No additional houses have been registered during the
year under the sanitary regulations of the Vestry made
under the provisions of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and the
Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874. At Lady-day, 1894,
thirty-five houses were on the register.
The additional powers conferred upon the Vestry by the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, have considerably
diminished the importance and necessity of registering
houses under the above-mentioned regulations.