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of the lower type of workpeople of both sexes
have persistently declined to avail themselves
of the separate accommodation arranged for
the sexes.
Again, we find in instances where employers
of labour occupying a portion of a building
are desirous of meeting our requirements, but,
unfortunately, have no power to compel their
landlord or other tenants in the same building
to grant the easements on their part of the
premises for the necessary pipes and connections.
Where only a short term of a lease is unexpired,
the tenant naturally resents improving
the property by building a suite of sanitary
conveniences, and urgent applications for postponing
the work and expense entailed are
frequently made; in all cases these appeals
have been carefully considered, and I have
not infrequently advised the Sanitary Committee
to temporise for a reasonable time.