The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-06 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS.

The weekly meeting of the board Was held on Fri-
day ; Mr. J. Tawerrz, to the chair. The chief engineer
pmented his usual report on the progress of the main
anion° works, which was received and adopted. A com-
munication was received front Mr. Derbyshire, the architect
to the trustees of the Peabody Fond, stating it was their
intention to erect a block of dwellings for the poor upon •
large plot of 'mid in Shadwell, but as they would contain •
larger superficial area than was allowed under the 27th sec-
tion of the Metropolitan Building Act, they salted, for the
interests of the fund, that the Metropolitan Baird of Works
would give them permission to erect the buildings in the
manner proposed. The superieteuding architect reported as
follows :—• The superficial area of the building will be 3,807
feet, and therefore 207 equate feet in excess of the limit
prescribed under the 27th section of the Building Act for
buildings of this description, viz., separate sets of rooms or
chambers tempted by different persons. The rule deems
. such separate rooms, if contained within • building of more
than 3,600 square feet in area separate buildings, and re-
quires that they be devided so far as they adjoin vertically
by party walls, and so farm they adjoin horizontally byparty
arches, or fire-proof floors. It is alleged that it is im-
portant to the interests of the trustees that the area now
proposed be cot diminished, inasmuch as the rooms cannot
be reduced in size or number without considerable loss to
the revenue they are expected to yield, and the trustees are
moat anxious to prove that a fair return is to be obtained for
the capital invested in such undertakings. As therefore it
is considered by the applicant that the role of the act is in.
applicable, • dispensation is sought under the powers of the
Nth section, and for these reasons—that the insurance com-
pany regard the erection as virtually fire-proof, the stair-
cases and corridors being of stone, the whole of the parti-
tion walla of brick, without wall plates or hood timbers in
any portion of the walls, the floors of the laundries and
bath-rooms constructed with iron girders and brick arches,
and the construction generally being of the most substantial
and incombustible nature. All the rules of the act except
that to which the present application refers tare been
strictlyadhered to ; indeed the thickness of the walls of the
topmast stogy is 4i inches more than the act requires. I
consider this an important application. It oaks the board to
remit one of the most necessary and useful rules for the
prevention of the spread of fire in such buildings as model
lodging-houses, inhabited by • large number of pour families,
and this simply because the whole building will exceed by
287 feet the limit prescribed, which excess if abandoned
would diminish the size of each room only a very few
equate feet, and in my opinion would entail no disadvantage
in accommodation. At any rate it is my firm conviction
that tbo question of • money speculation should not be re-
garded in a sae where the act so wiselyprovides for the
safety of a large number of inmates be prescribing rules
which I believe the board have no power under the 56th
section to remit, and I therefore recommend that the appli-
cotion be nut entertained." A short discussion ensued,
when it was stated by the solicitor that 'mein taken the
opinion of two eminent counsel, he advised the board that
they had no power to remit any of the provisions of the act
of parliament. The report was then put and agreed to.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN
RAILKAT.—On &Corday night, shortly after ten o'clock, a
shocking accident took place at the Shoreditch ,Cation of
the Great Eastern Railway, to • man named William
Mom*, ► naturalist, residing at Leytomtone, Ewer. The
unfortunate man was about to get into the train, which was
just leaving the platform for Stratford, when he missed his
footing and fell on to the line. An inatant alarm was raised,
but, several of the carriages passed over him, crashing him
in a shocking manner. He was foiled to be so much injured
that it was deemed advisable to remove him on a stretcher
to the London Hospital, where Mr. King, the house sur-
geon, ascertained that he had sustained fracture of the
skull and laceration of the scalp. There was also an exten-
sive lacerated wound of the abdomen, sod the bones of the
pelvis were crushed. Last evening he um still alive, but
very faint hopes were given of his surviving many hours.
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL TOR DISEASES OF
THE CREST. YILTORIA-PARE.—The somber of patients re-
lieved at this institution daring last week was 1,370, of
which 222 were new cases.

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