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THE TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
St. Sabiour's District Board of Works.
RESPECTFULLY PRESENTED TO THE INHABITANTS.
The Board of Works for the St. Saviour's District, pursuant to
the 198 sect. of the Metropolis Local Management Act, submit their
Tenth Annual Report and Abstract of Accounts to the Inhabitants
of the District; showing the Receipts and Expenditure of the Board
for the twelve months ending on the 25th March. Annexed also are
the Annual Reports of their Medical Officer and Surveyor.
The Appendices to tho Medical Officer's Report will be found to
contain a complete summary of the works of a sanitary description
which have been executed under his own coguizauce and that of the
Sanitary Inspector.
The more important matters which have occupied the attention of
the Board and their Officers during the twelve months preceding the
date hereof mav be thus stated :—
Shortly after the publication of their last Annual Report, the
3 Board made further efforts to induce the Water and Gas Companies
to avail themselves of the subway in Southwark Street for the
purpose of laying their mains, and solicited the co-operation of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, which was cheerfully given; but
their joint efforts were unavailing, and water and gas mains have
since been laid along the street in trenches.
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Another subject in connexion with the water supply has occupied
the attention of the District Board, and in which the Vestry of
Bermondsey had led the way, namely, the subject of a constant (in
lieu of an intermittent) supply. From the evidence afforded by the
published correspondence of the Vestry with the Clerks of many of
the principal towns in the United Kingdom, and as the result of
their own enquiries, the Board came to an unanimous resolution
that a constant supply would bo advantageous, but as the question
was not likely to be entertained by Parliament during the present
session, it would bo inexpedient to proceed further in the matter.
The Board, however, are pleased to be able to state that an application
made in their behalf to the two Water Companies in May
last to afford a supply of water on Sundays as on other days of the
week to the courts and alleys within the district, for the benefit of
the poorer class of inhabitants, who are for the most part destitute
of efficient receptacles to retain water, met with prompt and thorough
compliance on the part of the Southwark and Vauxhall Company,
and also by the Lambeth Company, restricted to the summer months.