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provided for those of the working classes who had been
displaced. The necessary provision has since been made by
the erection of artizans' dwellings, and the street was opened
for vehicular traffic on the 23rd ultimo.
Good progress has been made with the subway, the works
having been carried beyond the boundary of the district into
St. George's. The Company have, fortunately, been able to
dispense with the construction of temporary shafting at the
foot of London Bridge, and in the Borough High Street, for
which thev had obtained Parliamentary powers.
City aud
Southwark
Subway.
In September last, at which time an epidemic of scarlet and
typhoid fever was prevalent in the Metropolis, the Board
caused the attention of the Metropolitan Asylums Board to be
called to the misleading nature of the weekly returns of
infectious disease issued by them, the whole of the cases being
grouped together under the heading "St. Saviour's, Southwark"—meaning
the district of the St. Saviour's Union, but
conveying an impression that the cases belonged to the Parish
or District of St. Saviour, notwithstanding that most of them had
originated in St. George's and Newington. The Asylums
Board admitted the force of the objection, and they have since
adopted the heading "St. Saviour's Union," in order to avoid
any further misunderstanding.
Metropolitan
Asylums
Board
Returns.
In view of the serious charges made against the Metropolitan
Board of Works and certain of its Officers in relation to the
letting and disposal of surplus lands and other matters, this
Board, in September last, passed a resolution in support of
the proposal that a Royal Commission of Inquiry should be
appointed, and a copy of such resolution was forwarded to
the Secretary of State. A Commission has since been
appointed, and is now engaged in investigating the charges.
Metropolitan
Board of
Works.
The Action against the South Eastern Railway Company in
respect of the percolation of water through their railway bridges,
mentioned in the last Annual Report, was, after careful consideration
of all the circumstances, withdrawn on the part of
the Board, on the understanding that the Company would use
their best endeavours to put a stop to the leakage complained of.
Railway
Bridges.