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31 and 32, to do so, and to borrow money for the purpose from
the Public Works Loan Commissioners. Model Lodging-houses
hare been found to be something more than self-supporting in
other districts, and there can be no reason why similar success
should not attend their introduction to Mile End.
PUBLIC URINALS.
I take the opportunity offered me in addressing this report to
the Vestry, to suggest to them the advantage, in various points,
which would accrue from the construction of public urinals.
If proper places were provided, there would be some rational
plea for preventing the commission of nuisance in improper
places. The plan which appears to me to have the fewest
objections, would be, to erect in the Mde End Road, single
screens of cast iron, in the form of a scroll, at, and around every
tenth or twelfth lamp-post, on alternate sides of the road; and
a modification of the arrangement might afterwards be applied
to some of the principal streets. The cost would not be
excessive, and the two great objects of publicity and decency
would be attained. It would be vastly superior to the plan
adopted and much approved of in the French capital, where the
screens are only such to foot passengers, and are exposed to
equestrians and others who use the road.
INTRAMURAL BURIAL.
The subject of Intramural Burial is not likely to trouble us,
for some long time at least. I have been in all the vaults
which were formerly used for interments, and, with the exception
of those beneath Brunswick Chapel, they contain too few
coffins ever to be, under any circumstances, injurious to health;
and even those few are built in with brick and cement. The
vaults beneath Brunswick Chapel contain a great number of
coffins, and as they now receive no addition the whole could
easily' be sealed up, if it were considered desirable.