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diagrams of the rainfall in the months of July and August for the
years 1893, 1894, and 1895, and gave my opinion of the salutary
effect of the providential rainfall upon the public health during the
period of the short water supply.
Going back to the Sanitary Committee held the 28th March, the
Committee considered the resolution of the Wandsworth District
Board of Works to the effect that " the provision in the regulations
" made under the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, requiring that the
" waste preventing apparatus of a water closet shall not be capable of
" discharging more than two gallons of water at each flush should be
" altered so that the discharge should be not less than two nor more
" than three and a half gallons, and the Committee recommend that
" such resolution be agreed to, but that its operation should not be
" retrospective, and that the London County Council be requested
" to take steps with the view of obtaining an amendment of the
" regulations accordingly."
At a meeting of the London County Council, the Public Health
and Housing Committee submitted the following report:—" On
October 9th, 1894, we reported to the Council the result of our
correspondence with the London Water Companies with regard to the
alterations which the Council had asked them to make in their regulations
under the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, and in view of the
refusal of the Companies to make the most important alterations
suggested, viz. :—To increase the maximum capacity of water-closet
flushing cisterns from two to three gallons, and of their failure to
alter the regulations in the other points suggested—the Council
decided to ask the Local Government Board to appoint a person of
engineering knowledge and experience to report to them on the
subject as provided for in section 19 of the Act. We have now to
report that the Board has appointed Colonel Ducat, R.E., one of the
engineering inspectors, to hold an enquiry. The enquiry will take
place on October 31st, and we have instructed a solicitor to conduct
the Council's case. We have also requested the engineer, the