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THE
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
ST. SAVIOUR'S DISTRICT BOARD OF WORKS.
Respectfully presented to the Inhabitants.
THE Board have the satisfaction to refer to the Annual report of their Medical
Officer, and to the Tabular Statements therein contained, as evidence of the improved
and improving sanitary condition of the District; and although the proceeding's of the
Metropolitan Board of Works in carrying out the new street are very dilatory, yet when
the same shall have been constructed, the Board will receive great assistance in their
efforts to promote the proper drainage and ventilation of the dwellings of the poorer
inhabitants.
The delay on the part of the Metropolitan Board has occasioned great injury to
the District from so much property having been taken and pulled down, and being as yet
wholly unproductive, whereby the rates of the two parishes are necessarily increased.
Towards the latter end of the session of Parliament of 1860, a bill was introduced
into Parliament by the Metropolitan Board, extremely inimical to the interests of the
Board in respect of the proposed re-apportionment of the Rock Loan,—seeking to impose
upon the parish of Christ Church a much larger amount of the debt than that at first fixed;
and this Board thought it right to oppose the same, and the clause relating to the Rock
Loan was struck out, and subsequently the bill was withdrawn. The Metropolitan Board
have, however, thought it right to apply to Parliament again, dividing the bill into two
bills—the one embracing the contents of the former bill, with the exception of the Rock
Loan, and the other being' confined to the Bock Loan; and this District Board has
presented a petition against the latter.
In the course of the year ending 25th March 1861, the following contracts have
been entered into:—
With Mr. W. Green, for cleansing Christchurch for three years; from the 1st June, 1860, at the sum of
£635 per annum.
With Messrs. King and Howe, for Sewer and Drainage Works for the District for three years, from the
16th November, 1860, at 25 per cent. below Schedule prices.
With Messrs. Mowlem and Co., for Pavior and Mason's Work for the Borough District, at Schedule prices,
for three years, from 25th March, 1861