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at Jenning's Buildings, Hooper's Court, Westbourne Grove, and
the Mall. But deeming this accommodation insufficient, though
it is in some measure supplemented by about forty external
urinals of a semi-public character attached to public houses, your
Vestry resolved to refer the whole question of providing adequate
necessary accommodation for both sexes to the Works, Sanitary
and General Purposes Committee for inquiry and report. The
inquiry was delegated to a sub-committee which, after holding
several meetings, and spending a day in viewing the sites that
had been indicated as the most suitable, reported, recommending
the postponement of the question of providing accommodation for
women, and naming fifteen sites suitable for additional public
urinals. The report of the sub committee was adopted by the
Committee, the two sites first-named in the schedule attached
to the Report were accepted, and it was then resolved to report
progress. Your Vestry having considered the report of the
Committee, disallowed the two sites in question, and referred
the subject back to the Committee with an instruction that your
Vestry "would not deem any scheme satisfactory that did not
make provision for the requirements of the female sex" —a
judicious reservation. This further reference came before the
Committee in March, 1878, when it was unanimously resolved to
postpone the whole question for a period of six months, and
the report containing this resolution was in due course adopted by
your Vestry.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Legal proceedings have been taken, on failure to obtain compliance
with the notices served by order of your Vestry, in 18 instances,
but there has been nothing of a character to call for
special notice.
Much loss of time in the Police Court has been experienced
as usual in waiting for a hearing and by adjournments, owing to
the insufficiency of the arrangements for the administration of
justice. The half only of one Magistrate's time devoted to a
District which comprises the whole of the Borough of Chelseawhatever
may have been the case when the greater part of the
principal parishes consisted of market gardens—is totally insufficient
to cope with the business of the District, now that
such open spaces have been covered with thousands of inhabited
houses. It would be well worthy the consideration of
your Vestry whether some steps should not be taken to obtain, as
a minimum addition to the existing provision, the whole of the
time of one Magistrate at the Hammersmith Police Court? Under
the existing arrangements each Magistrate attends on three days
in every week; the morning part of the day being spent at the