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hardness of the water is almost entirely due to the presence
of bi-carbonate of lime in solution. This is easily reducible
by treatment with lime before delivery, a practice already
successfully carried out by the Colne Valley Company. The
water la under fair pressure and the supply is a constant one.
In those buildings, where such is not already the case, I
would strongly urge your Sanitary Authority to supply water
for domestic use direct from the rising main. This could
easily be effected, at a trifling cost, by the addition of a
screw-down tap connected with the main in each set of chambers.
Where drinking-water cisterns exist they are often badly placed,
as for instance, directly over or in close proximity to W.Cs;
However well situated, there is always more or less liability
of their becoming foul and a danger to health, hence the value
of an uncontaminated supply from the rising main. With the
arrangement suggested, the cisterns might continue to supply
the water-waste preventors which flush ths W.Cs.
BYE-LAWS UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT
This Act provides that every Sanitary Authority in the
Metropolis shall Make bye-laws under the following Sections:-
Section 16. For the prevention of particular nuisances.