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ensued, and fines and costs amounting in the whole to
£32 l1s. were inflicted.
The practice of using minute portions of copper for
preserving peas received special consideration at the hands
of the Sanitary Committee, and a number of samples were
taken, but the very minute quantity of copper which was
discovered in the samples, the largest being 0'559 grains
of copper to the lb., was so small that it would not have
been prudent to take any action.
Public Lavatories.
In the last report it was stated that the Board were
about to undertake the enlargement of the Public Lavatory,
constructed in New Oxford Street, at the junction
of Charing Cross Road, opened in September, 1895. The
work then contemplated was to increase the number of
water-closets for women from 6 to 8 and for men from 12
to 15, and to add 4 urinals. This work was speedily
carried out, and the additions to the lavatory available for
public use in the month of September, 1896.
A reference to the audited accounts will show that the
decision of the Board to construct this lavatory was a wise
one, the gross takings during the past year amounted to no
less a sum than £1,281.
Believing that there was a necessity for an extension
of these conveniences in the District the Board have
determined to construct a third underground convenience,
the situation decided upon being the wide part of High