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Sanitary Conveniences at Licensed Premises.
The powers of local authorities with respect to sanitary
conveniences at licensed premises, refreshment houses and
places of public entertainment were extended by the provisions
of Sections 43 and 44 of the Public Health Acts Amendment
Act, 1907. Your Council having adopted this part of
the Act, have power to require the removal of any sanitary
convenience opening on any street, which is so placed or constructed
as to be a nuisance or offensive to public decency.
The provision of one or more sanitary conveniences may also
be enforoed, where no such accommodation at present exists.
Early in the year, in accordance with the instructions
of the Public Health Committee, I made a complete inspection
of the sanitary conveniences provided for the use of customers
at the various licensed premises throughout the district, and
submitted a detailed report on the matter. Some form of
urinal is provided at each of the 26 public houses in the district,
and, at the time of the inspection, six of these were of
an excellent character, being fitted with glazed fire-clay stalls
of suitable type, which may be regarded as the most satisfactory
form of urinal. Seven other urinals were, generally,
satisfactory, although they were not, structurally, of such a
high sanitary standard as the six previously mentioned.
The remaining thirteen were either so placed or constructed
as to be unsatisfactory, and their position, existing
features, and the alterations and amendments which were required
were detailed in my report to the Committee.
Communications were sent to the responsible persons, and
it is gratifying to now report that in six instances the old
urinals have been abolished and entirely new buildings erected
in their place, fitted inside with either glazed fire-clay stalls
or slabs with suitable flushing apparatus attached. The internal
walls of two of these urinals were also entirely covered
with white tiles.