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the Vestry of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch,
in the county of london.
ANNUAL REPORT.
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Gentlemen,
The past year has seen a large increase in the work of the Vestry. The
Dusting and Scavenging of the Western Division of the parish was taken over on
the 25th March, 1892, by the Vestry, to be performed with their own plant and staff
instead of by a contractor. An important departure has been made in the
institution of a Municipal Technical School specially for the furniture trade, which
is the first of its kind established in the Metropolis. Substantial progress has been
made with the reconstruction scheme for the insanitary area known as the Moira
Place and Plumber's Place Area, the gross cost of which is estimated by Mr. Eve,
the Vestry's valuer, at £60,000. With the object of meeting the distress due to the
large number of the unemployed, the experiment of establishing a Labour Bureau
to assist men in getting employment was tried during the past winter, and the
results were sufficiently encouraging to cause the Vestry to resolve to re-open it
next winter on • the necessity arising. Progress has been made with the Electric
Lighting question by the adoption of a report by Mr. E. Manville, Consulting
Electrical Engineer, recommending an installation being undertaken by the Vestry
on the system and according to estimates submitted to the Vestry. The Baths and
Washhouses Acts have been adopted by the Vestry for this parish, with the
approval of the Local Government Board, and Commissioners appointed, and a
highly important combined scheme for the erection of baths and washhouses in
connection with a central electric lighting station, both being supplied with heat
from dust utilizing furnaces has been formulated and is under consideration, the
buildings to be erected on a central site, which would also accommodate a public
library for Hoxton. An extensive scheme for the reconstruction of sewers in
fifteen streets in Haggerston has be£n submitted by Mr. Martin, the Vestry's
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