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INSURANCE OF VESTRY MALL AND OFFICES.
The General Purposes Committee took into consideration in
November last the question of the Insurance of the Vestry Hall and
Offices together with their contents against loss by lire. Several
important alterations and additions had been made to the premises
since the last Insurance for £11,000 was effected, and the Committee
gave directions for a Policy to be taken out for the sum of
£20,220, including furniture, heating apparatus, books, maps, &c., and
one year's rent of the premises.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
The Commissioners for Public Baths and Washhouses, a list of
whom will be found on page 9, have not been idle since their appointment.
On the 29th April, 1890, they obtained the approval of the
Vestry to the purchase of a portion of the site formerly occupied by
the Great Northern Hospital, with an area of about 17,000 superficial
feet a frontage of 121 feet to the Caledonian Road and return frontages
in Stanmore Street and Free,ling Street, for the proposed south-western
baths and washhouses for 1 he sum of £7,500. Owing, however, to legal
delays the purchase was not completed until January, 1891. Meantime
designs for the proposed baths had been advertised for, that
of Mr. A. H. Tiltman of 70 Torrington Square being selected upon the
advice of a competent Architectural Assessor out of twelve sent in for
competition. In March, 1891, the tender of Mr. J. O. Richardson for
the erection of baths and washhouses in accordance with Mr. Tiltman's
designs for the sum of £14,933 was accepted, and the buildings are
now in course of erection.
On the 14th November, 1890, the Commissioners secured the
approval of the Vestry to the purchase of the freehold and leasehold
interests in the site known as Devonshire House, Hornsey Road, for the
proposed northern baths and washhouses, for the sum of £6,000. The
purchase was not, however, actually completed within the year with
which t his report deals. As this site contains over two and-a-half acres