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Also, with Messrs. Hearn and Neal for supplying Water Carts for St. Saviour's and Christchurch Districts
respectively, from the 25th March to the 25th October, the Board requiring all streets, &c., to be
watered when and as often as may be thought necessary.
An arrangement has been entered into for letting the lower part of the Clock
Tower for the office of the London District Telegraph Company, which it is hoped will be
found to be a public accommodation as well as a saving to the ratepayers.
The office of Messenger having become vacant by the death of Mr. James Kibblewhite,
it was thought unadvisable to appoint a successor, it being considered that the
Inspector (who subsequently received an addition of £10 to his annual salary) could
perform the duties of that office as well as his own.
Many and well-grounded complaints having been made of the slow progress of the
new street from High Street to Blackfriars Road, the Board hasten to assure the
inhabitants that no opportunity has been lost either by them or their valuable
representative at the Metropolitan Board, Mr. Charles Harris, in urging upon that
Board the necessity of more prompt action, and a memorial to that effect has been
presented to them by this Board.
The Board have great pleasure in reporting that the Phoenix Gas Company have
voluntarily reduced the price of the lamps in Christ Church, from £4 l5s. to £4 10s.,
notwithstanding the existing contract, and the alteration will effect an annual saving to
the District of £42.
On the application of Mr. Train for leave to lay down a Tramway in the Blackfriars
Road, and also from London Bridge through the High Street, the Board resolved to give
their assent thereto, upon his undertaking to make such Tramway and keep it in repair,
and remove it and restore the road to its former condition, if required, giving security to
the satisfaction of the Board for that purpose, and also subject to his obtaining the
consent of the adjoining Districts and the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The Board now beg to refer to the Works performed during the year under the
direction of the Surveyor and Clerk of the Works.
SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, April 16, 1861.
Under the direction and approval of the Sewer's Committee the following Works have been done
in the year ending March 25, 1861, viz.:—
IN THE BOROUGH DIVISION
3 Applications for House, &c., Drainage have been allowed and executed.
2 New Gullies have been made, and 2 others have been repaired, trapped and connected with the Sewer.
The Principal Sewers in this Division have been several times cleared and flushed by the admission of
water from the river, and the whole of the small and Pipe Sewers have been flushed by the water
delivered by water-cart.
Several other Works connected with Drainage have been executed under the orders of the Committee.
IN THE CLINK DIVISION.
9 Applications for House, &c., Drainage have been made, allowed, and executed.
4 New Gullies have been made, and 17 others have been altered, repaired, trapped, and connected with
the Sewers.
2 New Air Shafts in Bridge Street.
2 New Entrance Frames in Bridge Street.
1 Penstock made and fixed.
The Sewers have been cleared out and the Soil carted away in Emerson Street, Rose Alley, Bridge Street,
and Essex Street,
Obstructed Drainages have been cleared at White-Cross Street, Bedford Row, Henry VIII. Union Street,
Bankside, Castle Street, New Park Street, George IV. Bridge Road, Elizabeth Place, and Ewer Street.