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1908]
234
During the year 562 tenement or lodging houses were furnished with a
water supply to an upper storey, and 236 preliminary notices had been served,
and 125 notices by order of the Public Health Committee.
Public House Urinals in Streets.—Complaints respecting these
places are frequently received, and consequently they are regularly visited by
the Inspectors. As a rule it is found that the persons complaining live in their
immediate neighbourhood and object to them more on the ground that they
are morally offensive than that they are insanitary, and also because it sometimes
happens that people under the influence of drink use the walls of houses in
their immediate neighbourhood. It is much to be regretted that all public
houses do not provide urinal accommodation within the premises, as they are
compelled to do in some provincial towns. To enforce similar provisions in
London would mean that in innumerable instances the buildings would have to
be entirely re-constructed.