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8. Metropolitan Board's power to make Bye-laws with
reference to House Drainage Arrangements.—The Committee
heing of opinion that the power might be exercised with advantage,
recommend that the attention of the members representing
the Vestry be called to the subject, with a view to their advising
the Board to exercise the powers conferred by the Act.
9. Public Conveniences.—The Committee refer to the
willingness of the Vestry to add to existing accommodation to any
necessary extent, and to the difficulty of obtaining sites for urinals,
etc., free from objection on the part of adjoining occupiers of
inhabited houses. Local opposition alone has prevented the Vestry
from adopting the recommendations of sites made by the Works,
Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee. (The Medical
Officer of Health had reported that " such accommodation being
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 standpipes for street
watering, about sixty in number.
11. Paving, etc., of Private Mews, Courts, etc.—The
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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
Puiposes Committtee, from time to time, a list of places suitable
to be dealt with under the provisions of the Act.