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As to the Purchase of the Site of Fuller's Hospital.
Your committee have to report that they have made the offer to the
Charity Trustees, as directed, and they have been informed by a communication
from the Clerk to the Trustees, that the Trustees, subject to
the sanction of the Charity Commissioners, and also to certain conditions
are prepared to accept the same, and that the Commissioners have
intimated their willingness, subject to conditions, to sanction the sale of
the property to the Vestry, for the sum named, but the Commissioners
have informed the Trustees that their official warrant for the sale will
not be issued until satisfactory arrangements have been made for the
temporary accommodation of the inmates, during the building of the
hospital at Wood Green.
Your committee therefore recommend that it be referred to them,
with power to make any necessary arrangement with the Trustees for
that purpose.
As to the Estimate of the Cost of Building, &c.
Upon proceeding to consider this question,—your committee found
that it involved the whole matter of the nature and amount of accommodation
required, the character and extent of the building, its style and
design, and the quality of work to be done and material to be used, and
unless the whole of those matters were defined, it would be useless to
attempt even an approximate estimate of the cost.
Your committee therefore considered this reference intended that
the committee should consider the whole question, and not only furnish
the Vestry with figures, but the plans and designs upon which the
estimates were based, Your committee therefore called in the services
of Mr. C. A. Long, who had been employed upon the question of site by
the Vestry, and after several consultations with him, and fully considering
the requirements of the Vestry and the Parish, directed him to
prepare plans, embodying the committee's views thereon.
In instructing the Surveyor, your committee had to consider not only
the requirements of the Vestry and Parish according to their own judgment,
but also whether the Vestry had expressed any wish, or had given