Identifier: reportonpublicba00newy (find matches)
Title: Report on public baths and public comfort stations by the Mayor's committee of New York City
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations
Subjects: Baths
Publisher: New York City
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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hout an automatic water supply. The wholeof them were repainted during the year at a cost of £25. The parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fieldsmaintains a latrine at Charing Cross, which is kept open from 7a m. to midnight on week-days, and until 11 p. m. on Sundays.In winter the womens department is opened at 8 a. m. Besidesthis, the Vestry maintains nine urinals with thirty-one compart-ments. Of these, six are of slate, two of iron and one of brick andslate. The receipts and payments for 1893-4 were as follows: RECEIPTS. £ s. d. Rebate on electric current 1 13 10 Payments for use of lavatories, etc 794 9 9 Total £796 PAYMENTS. Contract Electric light Water Condensers Law costs Gas Repairs 303 18 11 Painting urinals 58 7 1 Paper, name plates, uniforms, etc 20 17 7 Wages and washing towels, Charing Cross lavatory 296 16 6 Wages, cleansing urinals, etc 67 13 10 Oilmans goods 17 17 7 Sundries 34 15 8 £796 3 7 312 3 58 17 210 2 11 1413 11 12 13 1191402 Total £1,419 9 5 CO 5 3 ~ a> o 2 ^
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IUJtlilO (;().MJin SlAIlONH. 157 ()i this, /271 13.S. lOfl. was spent on tlicmaintenance and repairs of llie urinals, which arc free. Shoreditcli opened an underground sani-tary convenience and hivat(jry for \)(>i\) sexes in October, 1895, ata total cost of about ii8oo, ttnvards wliirh a street railway corpora-tion contributed £600. The convenience is sixty feet by fifteen feet,and its floor is about ten feet below the surface of the Headway.There are twelve urinals, six water-closets and three lavatories formen, and three water-closets and one lavatory for women. Theconvenience was constructed by the same contractor as the newconvenience in the St. Giles district, and its fittings arc very similar. The Strand District I.oard of Worksmaintains two latrines, the accommodation being as follows: Cost. Accommodation. Latrine. Men. Women. Urinals. ^^Z. I^--^^-- ZfeZ. l^-toHea. Wellinstou St. ..Law Courts £1,8602,474 1820 10 412 5 4 4 22 In addition to these latrines maintained

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