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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 Yestry 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 Peivate Mews, Couets, 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.