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April last decided to enlarge it and to form an additional
entrance to the men's compartment. The Contract
for this enlargement has been let to Messrs. 0. W.
Killingback and Co., and the work is now being proceeded
with.
Underground Convenience, Shaftesbury Avenue.
The flowers and shrubs which were placed by the
Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, in the year 1892,
against the walls of the staircases at the underground
Convenience in Shaftesbury Avenue, were so constantly
damaged by mischievous persons, and either from this
cause or from atmospheric influences presented at all times
so unhealthy and untidy an appearance that the Board
resolved to remove the same. One of the objects in
placing the shrubs was to obscure the view of the
staircase from passers by, and on the removal of the
shrubs rough plate-glass was affixed to the railings of the
staircases.
Improvement, Creat Russell Street.
An important public improvement was, by arrangement
with the Commissioners of Works, carried out in
Great Russell Street and Montague Street, fronting the
British Museum, the iron dwarf railings which enclosed a
piece of paved land belonging to the Government being
removed, and the ground thrown into the public-way.
Your Board was thus enabled to considerably increase
the width of the footpath and the roadway, and improve
the junction of the carriage-way of Great Russell
Street with Montague Street.