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The London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company having
required the late stoneyard in Surrey Row, the Board disposed of the
same to them at the price of £295.
The Board, consequent upon encroachments made by the same
Company, have obtained agreements from them securing the carrying
out of improvements in the public way in Robert Street and Church
Street. The Company have also carried out improvements in Surrey
Row.
Such portion of Stamford Street as is within the District has
been paved with granite by Messrs. Mowlem & Co., one of the
Contractors of the Board, under their existing contract. Looking to
the importance of this thoroughfare and its immediate connection
with Southwark Street, this is thought to bo a step in the right
direction.
The Board have also to report that they have taken of the Charing
Cross Railway Company four arches in Ewer Street, for the purposes
of a Stone yard, and hope that these will afford greater security for
the preservation of the property of the Board, as well as greater
facility for the deposit and arrangement of the stone and other
materials, than has hitherto been attainable.
A rather heavy charge has lately devolved upon the Board, for
on the 20th May last, the Metropolitan Board formally resigned the
control and jurisdiction of Southwark Street to the District Board,
and gave notice that from that day the expenses of lighting, cleansing,
and repairing it would fall upon the District Board, consequently,
the latter had to take immediate steps for the watering and cleansing
of the street by their own contractors, and also for the lighting of it.
The Board, however, feel that they have reason to congratulate the
Inhabitants of the District on the acquisition of so noble a thoroughfaro
as Southwark Street. Already considerable progress has been
made in the disposal of the ground-plots by the Metropolitan Board,
and large handsome structures are continually springing up. Those
flanking the High Street would not discredit a far more pretentious
neighbourhood than the ancient Borough of Southwark. Indeed it
may be said that the status of the Borough is improved by their
erection. Doubtless, ere long, the greater portion of the vacant
ground in Southwark Street will be covered with valuable property;
a matter of no small importance to the ratepayers, for being of a
high rateable capacity, it will not fail to yield a considerable return
in aid of the local rates.
In July, 1868, an Act for limiting the hours of labour of young
persons employed in Bakehouses, and for enforcing cleanliness and
ventilation of Bakehouses was passed:—also an Act for amending