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tion 1 that an inquest must be held. Further, what
is to constitute a still-birth? Is it a foetus born
dead? or is it a foetus which dies after birth, sayafter
an interval of five minutes?
Recommendation 7 is also a sanitary one, but
the interval proposed is too long, especially in summer.
It would have been better to make the interval
much shorter, and, if a longer interval be
desired or required, to allow the same only when
the body shall have been removed to a public
mortuary.
WATER SUPPLY.
The water supply of the Parish is derived from
the Thames, through the mains of the Grand
Junction and West Middlesex Water Companies,
both having their “intakes” at Hampton Wick.
The following information as to the characters of
the water supplied is taken from the Report by
Professor E. Frankland, D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., included
in the Registrar-General's Annual Summary
for last year. It should be noted that the water
samples were “taken directly from the mains of the
several Companies at places recommended by their
respective engineers.”
As the source of the water supplied by the
two Companies is the same, any differences in
the results of analysis must be due to variations
in the treatment it is subjected to for