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the use of fire hydrants, for flushing, street watering and other
purposes, and the Chairman of the General Purposes Committee
(Mr. Coles) was deputed to attend. The Conference took place
at the County Hall, Spring Gardens, and the matter was
discussed with the Fire Brigade Committee of the Council.
Much difference of opinion however was expressed, many of the
delegates being of opinion that it would be better in the interest
both of life and property that the local authorities should
have a separate and an independent supply. Afterwards the
Council propounded a series of questions to the local authorities,
and the Board, in answer to the inquiry whether local authorities
should be allowed to use the fire hydrants for the purposes
referred to, replied in the negative.
MILK ANALYSIS.
On receipt of a circular-letter from the Vestry of St. Mary,
Battersea, relative to the standards adopted by the Society of
Public Analysts and the Somerset House authorities for the
analysis of milk, the Board, after conferring with Mr. Bodmer,
the Public Analyst, on the subject, caused a communication to
be addressed to the Local Government Board in support of the
Vestry's suggestion, viz., that definite limits for the composition
of milk should be fixed, and that that Board should take steps to
enforce by legal enactment the recognition of the limits decided
upon, and of such variations and alterations in the limits as that
Board might see fit to introduce subsequently.
ASPHALTE PAYING.
The Board having resolved to pave with asphalte certain
streets in the parish of Christchurch, at an estimated cost of
£3,632, applied to the London County Council for a loan of
£2,000 towards defraying the cost of the same. The Council
agreed to advance the money on condition that the amount he
repaid in five years by equal annual instalments, and interest
quarterly at 3½ per cent. per annum. The loan was completed
on the 26th July.
GLANDERS AND FARCIES.
In November, Mr. Grattan called the attention of the Board
to a serious danger with which the district was menaced, viz.,
the erection of buildings in Orange Street, for the destruction of
the carcases of diseased animals under the Glanders and Farcies
Order, 1892, the Public Health Committee of the London
County Council, having had before them and favourably entertained
a proposal for the erection of buildings of the kind in the
locality referred to, and moved a resolution strongly protesting
against the same. The resolution was unanimously adopted
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