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Authority requesting it to require the Water Company to furnish
a constant supply to 98 houses which were amongst those
described in the above report.
The answer to this request is given in the following
paragraphs from the Report of the Works and General Purposes
Committee, of the Metropolitan Board, of the 20th March, 1876,
which was presented to the Board on the 24th of March, 1876,
and approved by 23 votes against 5. (Sec minutes Metropolitan
Board, March, 1876, pp. 433, 435.)
"Your Committee have further to report that they have had
"under consideration the letter from the Vestry of Shoreditch,
"referred on the 15th October last (No. 33), requesting the Board
"to make application to the New River Company, under the 8th
"section of the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, requiring a constant
"supply of water to 98 houses in certain streets in that parish.
"The Vestry state, in support of their request, that the present
"intermittent supply is very imperfect and unhealthy, and that, in
"view of the considerable outlay which must be incurred to pro"vide
new cisterns and proper arrangements if that is continued,
"and of the probability that a constant supply will be required at
"no very distant date, it is thought advisable to require it at
"once, rather than compel the owners to incur the expense of
"altering the present arrangements. The Vestry add that they
"are informed that the Company arc quite willing to give a
"constant supply, but prefer to be " required " to do so, also that
"the greater part of the owners are willing to accept it, but that
"some arc not, and hcnce the necessity of compulsory powers,
"which they state can only be obtained by the action of this
"Board ; the Vestry having no power to require the Company to
"furnish a constant supply nor to apply to the Board of Trade
"in the matter. Your Committee have given the fullest con"sideration
to this application, but, having regard to all the
"circumstances, they arc of opinion that it is not expedient to
"comply with the request, and they recommend that the Vestry
"be informed accordingly."
That in the month of February last a deputation from the
Vestry consisting of the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, the
Medical Officer, and the Vestry Clerk waited upon the Directors
of the New River Company to request them to furnish a constant
supply to a considerable portion of the district, but the Directors