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of ornamentation, and the impossibility of being
easily injured are among the points to be aimed at;
absence of smell, and general cleanliness are
indispensable, and the whole should be maintained
or always kept in a state of perfection, or
as near it as possible, but the amount of money
required to achieve all these points, especially the
most essential one—a public position—has hitherto
been a most serious obstacle to the erection of
superior public conveniences; if it were my duty
to collect statistics on the subject I have every
reason to believe that I should discover that much
injury to health results from the want of these
conveniences to those whose occupations are chiefly
out of doors.
Those urinals that the Vestry actually possess
have been maintained in as good condition as
circumstances will allow; the drains are attended to,
they are daily flushed, disinfectants are used if
necessary, and the iron work is periodically painted.
The Yestry and the Works Committee have
allowed no opportunity to pass where a site could
be obtained for the erection of public urinals, but
this Parish offers such a limited number of eligible
sites, that they are almost reduced to none at all
that can be practically used for the purpose.