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Report on Constant Water Supply.
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among the poor, and in ways which may seem to insure a successful issue, and then, if
practicable, to extend it to the whole parish ; and, whether or no, at once to urge a Sunday
supply in the poorest districts at least. It would also be well in the face of a possible
advent of cholera to impress strongly the companies that the supply must be even fastidiously
pure.
APPENDIX.
It appears necessary to add that several places reportod as being now supplied under
the constant system, liavo been visited by members of the Vestry and officers, e. g.
Crown Court, Whitechapel. 14 houses supplied now six months by water waste preventer,
which has "scarcely ever been out of order." The people state they would not on any
account be without it. The water clear, good and abundant.
Garden Court. 14 houses supplied by a water waste preventer of another kind. The people
report "they have not been really without water but once in 7 years."
Osborne Court. Supplied as in Garden Court. Waste preventer, " not out of order, never."
They are never without water, which is plenty and clear.
New Court. 15 houses. A tap on the constant system to every house. There is little or
no waste. The water is cooler and more pleasant than that from the waste preventer.
This mode of supply is of course the only really constant supply preferrod by the officers
and by the inhabitants, and has been 7 years in most successful operation.
Nealroy's Court. 3 houses supplied by a waste preventer during 8 or 9 years. It is in
very good condition, and has never been out of order.
The different modes have all been so successful that the constant supply is now in full
operation in 17 places. The water closets are flushed by the people, which in poor places
supplied " constant" appears to be regularly and properly done.
York Place, St. George's, Southwark. 16 houses reported as belonging to Mr. Quick, the
engineer of the Southwark Company, who declares the constant supply system to be
very expensive, and all but impracticable. His own houses here are supplied on the constant
system. The water is on night and day, and has been so with scarcely any intermission
for several (9 or 10) years. There are, as in New Court, no butts or cisterns. The
water here is conveyed along a horizontal iron pipe 3 feet from the ground, and is drawn
behind each house, chiefly through screw down taps. It is clear, cool and pleasant. The
children seldom if ever meddle, and there is no appreciable waste. Water closets are
flushed by the tenants.
There is no evidence in any of the cases that any water meter has been in use. Complaints
were made in some of those cases, and have been made in others, that persons not