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Before closing this short Summary or Report, I
find every year more and more cause to regret the
want of Public Conveniences, not, of course,
personally, but on behalf of the Public; the circumstances
connected with my office compelling
attention to the subject. In saying this it is with
the full conviction, founded on experience, that the
Vestry of St. James's have done their utmost
hitherto, and I trust will eventually succeed in
accomplishing the required result; so much has
ended in failure that it is almost discouraging,
but if the ice can be broken and proper accommodation
of the kind provided, I am sure it will lead to
many others, that we shall all be surprised that
none were done before.
I trust that next year I shall have the pleasure of
reporting the completion of at least one, if not
more, of such constructions, which if not ornamental
are decidedly more than useful, that is, essential,
and which if not models of perfection will be an
advance upon the hideous erections that now do
duty and are so justly complained of; certainly
beyond their utility nothing or very little can be
said in their favour.
This is the only matter in which we have been