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unmistakably a public want, too much weight should not be attached
to local objections, as the provision of a suitable retiring place
must obviously be less objectionable than the nuisances it is
designed to prevent; it being found in practice, moreover, that
local objections quickly die away when once the urinal has been
brought into use.")
10. Drinking Fountains.—The Committee concurring that
power to provide means for supplying the public with drinking
water may be advantageously extended to very wide limits, and
not deeming it requisite to erect costly fountains, recommend that
the object in view should be attained, in the first instance, by
attaching a simple apparatus to the several Itandpipes for
street watering, about sixty in number.
11. Paving, etc., of Private Mews, Courts, etc.—The
Committee, being of opinion that the Vestry have power to pave,
drain, etc., and to recover the cost from the owners of abutting
premises, recommend that the Surveyor and the several Inspectors
be requested to submit to the Works, Sanitary, and General
Purposes Committee, from time to time, a list of places suitable
to be dealt with under the provisions of the Act.
12. Consumption of Smoke.—Any fireplace or furnace not
properly consuming its own smoke being a statutory "nuisance,"
the Committee recommend that the several Inspectors be instructed
to report offences under the Act, with a view to proceedings for
the abatement of the nuisance, and prosecution in suitable cases.
13. Periodical Removal of Manure and other Refuse
Matter, etc.—The Committee recommend that the Sanitary
Inspectors be instructed to take proceedings for recovery of
penalties in case of neglect or default to comply with the requirements
of the Vestry's "Notice." They think it possible that
section 35 may be wide enough to enable the Vestry by "Notice"
to secure periodical removal of "refuse matter" of offensive trades,
and recommend that steps be taken to give practical effect to this
view. They further recommend that the attention of the representatives
of the Vestry on the Metropolitan Board of Works, be
requested to the question, Whether the Board's power to make