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streets, displacing no less than 1,338 gas
lamps, which have been removed.
The establishing of underground conveniences
in fourteen places in various parts of the
City are additional factors in providing for
the necessities and comforts of the citizens.
These contained, up to the end of the year,
141 compartments as urinals, and 71 waterclosets,
and others are shortly to follow.
In addition to the above there are 42
separate places used as public urinals above
ground.
I regret to say that only six water-closets
have been provided for women, all in one
locality, we are, therefore, in this respect
lamentably behind some of the northern cities
on both sides of the Tweed.
The refuse removed from the City in 1894
consisted of 31,156 cartloads of street sweepings
and 41,626 loads of house and trade
refuse: total 72,782. The Destructor apparatus
at Lett's Wharf has not shown the
same satisfactory results as obtains in some