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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 £65 19s. 2d.
A constant supply of water is laid on to all the Urinals
in the Parish.
The cost of alterations and repairs have been £51 1s. 3d.,
and cleansing £74 1s. 8d. The repairs are principally
making good wilful damage caused by persons unknown, and
repairing pipes, See., burst during the frost.
PICCADILLY LAVATORIES.
The cost of general repairs to the Lavatories was
£127 0s, 7½d.; gas, including that consumed in the large
lamps outside, £85 8s. 4d.; water, £82 6s. 6d.
The treads of the steps to the men's Lavatories, which
had become badly worn in places, owing to the excessive
traffic, were replaced with new where necessary. The wood
and ironwork, &c., throughout the building were repainted
by Messrs. R. & J. Shiers, of 5, King Street, Regent Street,
under contract.
In the autumn your Vestry, finding the water closet and
lavatory accommodation insufficient, determined to enlarge
the building by extending it on the north side under the
roadway, and they were thus enabled to add 2 water closets,
5 lavatory basins, and 1 urinal on the men's side, and 1
water closet and 3 lavatory basins on the women's side. A
water heater is provided in each lavatory, so that warm water
can be supplied to those who require it for washing.
Besides these additions the drainage was entirely reconstructed
and manholes provided, so that all pipes, &c., can be