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Proposed
New
Hospital.
The number of rooms disinfected was 155.
Six library books were disinfected.
On the 30th October and 2nd November, 1896, Dr. Sweeting,
one of the Medical Inspectors of the Local Government
Board, held an inquiry into the Council's application for a loan
of £10,000 for the erection of the proposed New Hospital in
the upper Cemetery field. There was considerable opposition
to the site by the owners of the adjoining property, several of
whom were represented by Counsel. The inquiry lasted two
days, and Mr. Macmorran, Q.C., conducted the Council's case.
The Local Government Board wrote to the Council on the 23rd
Feb. 1897, stating that they would accept the upper Cemetery
field as the site for the New Hospital, subject to the sanction
of the Home Secretary being obtained to the proposed appropriation
to burial purposes, in lieu of the upper Cemetery
field, of land at the rear of the Cemetery, at present forming
part of the Sewage Farm. The application for the sanction of
the Home Secretary was made, and this sanction has been
obtained. An action was commenced by the Land Securities
Company Ltd. for an injunction to restrain the Council from
proceeding with their scheme. This action is still pending.
Plans were prepared by the Surveyor and submitted to the
Local Government Board for their approval, and this has not
yet been obtained.
Housing of
the Working
Classes Act,
1890.
In January a complaint was made respecting a dilapidated
cottage in Beulah Road, and the Committee decided to serve a
notice under this Act on the owner. The notice had the
desired effect, and the cottage was put into a proper state of
repair.
The houses Nos. 1 to 23, Berckley Road, which were
closed under the Act last year, were also thoroughly done up
and re-drained. The whole of the sites were concreted, new
flooring laid, roofs and walls repaired, new W.C.'s built, and
new sanitary appliances fixed. All the houses are now again
occupied.