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URINALS.
All the Urinals in the Parish are fitted up on the trough
system, and flushed automatically. Excluding the Conveniences
at Piccadilly Circus, the water has cost £85 7s. Od.
In former years it cost close upon £120 per annum.
A constant supply of water is now laid on to all the
Urinals in the Parish except one, and the automatic
apparatus belonging to the latter is worked from a tank
fixed above the urinal, which is filled daily from the Water
Company's mains.
The cost of alterations, repairs, and cleansing has been
£110 0s. 3d. The repairs are principally making good
wilful damage caused by persons unknown, and repairing
pipes, &c., burst during the frost.
PICCADILLY CONVENIENCES.
During the year a two-basin lavatory was constructed,
under contract by Messrs. B. Finch & Co., of 82, Belvedere
Road, Lambeth, on the men's side of the Conveniences, and
has proved so great a success that it could well be
extended.
The Conveniences generally were painted, and sundry
repairs carried out, during the autumn, by Messrs. R. and J.
Shiers, of 5, King Street, Regent Street.
The cost of the new lavatory was £38 4s. 8d., painting,
&c., £77 17s. 6d., gas, including that consumed in the large
lamps outside, £50 0s. 9d., water £102 5s. 0d., and electric
light, £93 4s. 5d. The current for the electric light was
supplied by the St. James's and Pall Mall Electric Light
Company, of Mason's Yard, Duke Street, St. James's.