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Public Waiting-rooms.—The Council of theSociety of Arts haying appointed a committee for promoting the establishment of public waiting-rooms, the committee has caused two sets of rooms to be prepared by way of experiment. The waiting-room for ladies is at 51, Bedford-street, Strand, bn the north side, opposite Coutts'a Bank; and a respectable female has been charged with the superintendence. The waiting-room for gentlemen is at 05, Fleet-street, on the south side. Theeutrauce fee to either is 2d. The hours of admission from eight until seven. Each waiting room is also provided with accommodation for washing, for which the charge is 4d., with a clean towel to each person. It is hoped that the success of this experiment will induce the pubtio generally to establish these much-wanted conveniences. That they may be made self-remunerating under proper management, lias been proved at the late Great Exhibition. The receipts for the waiting-rooms there in live months were 2,470/., while the expenses were only 680/. —a fact to which it is important to direct the attention of the proprietors of theatres and other places of public amusement. As the present movement is of so novel and delicate a character, and so important to public health and comfort, the committee of the Society of .Art* have requested their members to make it kuowu as widely ** possible*
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Christian Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 06, 1852
Page 13
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