[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's].

  • St. Saviour's District (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1885
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 control over the proceedings of the Company, the 40th Section being as follows:—There shall be but one temporary shaft or opening in the roads or streets of the district. Unless the Company and the District Board shall otherwise agree, such shaft or opening shall be so constructed as not to hinder or obstruct the traffic of the roads or streets more than may be absolutely necessary; and the Company shall, unless the Company and the District Board shall otherwise agree, at all times keep open and uninterrupted for public traffic, an aggregate clear width of thirty-two feet of roadway and eighteen feet of footway, and shall, at their own expense, shore up and put proper hoardings so as to prevent such shaft or opening from causing any danger to the traffic in the roads or streets. Such shaft or opening shall not be of a greater length (including the inclosure thereof) than one hundred feet. The same Company have since introduced a Bill to the House of Commons having for its object the construction of a similar Subway from Clapham to the Elephant and Castle, to join the one above referred to, but, after being read a second time, it was withdrawn by the promoters. South Eastern Railway (Various Powers) Bill. The South Eastern Railway Company have, by their Various Powers Bill, Session 1885, applied to Parliament for, inter alia, an extension for two years of the time limited by their New Lines and Widenings Act, 1882, for the acquisition of lands in the Parishes of St. Saviour and St. George-the-Martyr, and which will expire on the 18th August next. An extension of time appearing to the Board to be unavoidable if the works were to be carried out at all, they did not consider it necessary to incur the expense of opposing the Bill, which, at the date of this Report, has been read a second time in the House of Commons. Telegraph and Telephone Wires. The Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the law relating to the control over Telegraph, Telephone, and other Wires having intimated that they would be prepared to receive evidence from the local authorities, this Board appointed Mr. Rider, Mr. Goodwin, and their Surveyor (Mr. Norrish) to appear as witnesses on their behalf. The Board had previously had under consideration a number of suggestions for the regulation of overhead wires, but, having regard to the danger thereof, had