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later, in the construction of public water closets, for both
sexes, so that the necessary substances may be at once
disinfected, and rendered useful instead of becoming a
source of danger or annoyance, to put it in its mildest
form. It has seemed to me after years of reflection upon
not the most agreeable subject, that this is the
starting point so to speak.
It is clear to me that the difficulties in the way
would be numerous, but not so much in fact, as
in imagination. Privacy is dear to all Englishmen,
and that could be much more effectually secured by
public conveniences, than in most private houses; emergencies
would have to be provided against—age, illness,
etc. I wish some more able hand would take this
view of the question. The fact of its being a delicate
subject does not put it beyond the pale of consideration.
The simple summing up of the question is as far as
possible to keep accumulations out of sewers, instead of
having to remove them afterwards, The idea is not
altogether so Utopian as it may appear.
We have only to visit a railway station, as a practical
example of the way in which the question is actually
understood there, and not misunderstood by any.
However unpleasant the question may be, as London
and large towns increase, it must, sooner or later, be
honestly looked in the face.
In concluding this part of the subject, it is clear that