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A Card to the Commissioners of Sewers, and the Blackfriars Bridge Committee. [c.$1820?]
In the extensive Improvements now making under your authorities, it is to be hoped that you will not forget the absolute necessity there is for Sink Stones not Basons), to be placed in the different Wards, at proper corners, such as have existed for many years at Whitehall and the Horse Guards. Experience has shown, that the various means which have been resorted to of late years, with a view to prevent what is called Nuisances, have in fact increased them; and it is submitted, that the false delicacy of certain Citizens, in objecting to those necessary accommodations to public wants, ill becomes those who are in the habit of calling for a chamber-pot at their dinner tables, a practice noticed by foreigners as a national indelicacy.
AN OCTOGENARIAN VIATOR.
In the extensive Improvements now making under your authorities, it is to be hoped that you will not forget the absolute necessity there is for Sink Stones not Basons), to be placed in the different Wards, at proper corners, such as have existed for many years at Whitehall and the Horse Guards. Experience has shown, that the various means which have been resorted to of late years, with a view to prevent what is called Nuisances, have in fact increased them; and it is submitted, that the false delicacy of certain Citizens, in objecting to those necessary accommodations to public wants, ill becomes those who are in the habit of calling for a chamber-pot at their dinner tables, a practice noticed by foreigners as a national indelicacy.
AN OCTOGENARIAN VIATOR.