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creased contributions by the Fire Brigade Companies, to
£10 per £1,000,000, would be sufficient for the purpose
of the Fire Brigade, and they, therefore, addressed a communication
to this effect to the Metropolitan Board of
Works.
The Metropolitan Board of Works introduced a Bill into
Parliament to take power to increase the rate to a penny
in the £, and also to increase the contributions of the Fire
Insurance Companies; but the Insurance interest in the
House of Commons was sufficient to stop the progress of
the Bill, and it was eventually dropped.
Sanitary Condition of the Parish.— It will be remembered
that at the close of the last parochial year the Report
of Mr. D. Cubitt Nichols, on the sanitary condition of the
Parish, had just been received by the Vestry, and had
been referred to a Special Committee for consideration.
The Special Committee considered the Report, and made
the following recommendations to the Vestry:—
1. That it is desirable that a constant water supply be provided,
and that the matter be referred to a Committee to consider
the question, and to report as to the portion of the Parish to
which such constant supply should be first applied.
2. That it be referred to the Sanitary Committee to prepare
Regulations under the 35th Section of the Sanitary Act,
1886, to bo applied to those houses in the Parish let in
tenements, and in which the landlords are non-resident.
3. That it be referred to the Sanitary Committee to inspect houses
in Little Bath Street, Great Bath Street, Little Sutton Street,
Taylor's Row, Paved Place, Victoria Place, Mount Zion,
Prime's Buildings, Wellington Place, York Buildings, and
York Valley, and to report upon the desirability of the
Vestry exercising the powers conferred on them by the
thereto.