View report page

34
Committee that they had received numerous complaints of
the urinal in Hooper's Court, Brompton Road, within their
parish, in consequence of the demolition of the urinal at
Kniffhtsbrisre, and asked that new accommodation might
o ~ 7
be erected upon some more suitable site in the same locality.
The surveyor being unable to suggest any alternative spot
sufficiently near, the Committee enquired of the Vestry of
Kensington whether they would be willing to contribute
towards the cost of constructing an underground urinal by the
present refuge in the centre of the Knightsbridge Road.
The matter proceeded no further, however, for at the meeting
of the Vestry when the report of the Works Committee,
instructing the surveyor to prepare plans and estimates,
was submitted for approval, protests were raised by the
residents in the vicinity of the suggested site against the
proposal to bring back an annoyance of which they had
successfully complained a few months previously, and
the Vestry negatived the scheme to the expressed regret
of the Kensington Vestry.
Early in the year the Vestry received notifications from
the Chelsea Waterworks Company of intention to determine
at Midsummer the existing arrangements for the
supply of water to the urinals in Little George Street and
Horseferry Road, when the water would be supplied by
meter at the ordinary trade scale—i.e., Is. per 1,000 gallons.
Considering this charge to be excessive, having regard to
the public purpose for which the supply is required (the
urinal in Horseferry Road alone was estimated to cost £130
per annum as compared with the £100 provided for in the
estimates for all urinals hitherto), the company were requested
to name more favourable terms ; and upon their
refusal the solicitor was instructed to apply to the magistrate
to fix the rate of payment for the water consumed.
The solicitor, however, with the support of counsel, advised
that the supply to urinals did not come within the provisions
of the Acts relating to supply "for other than