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have been completed, the instalment for the past year being
18,707 feet. This is altogether equivalent to, in round
numbers, 118 miles, and must necessarily have conferred
upon the District great advantages in contributing to the
means of warding off Zymotic diseases and of depriving
such diseases of much of the fatality which might otherwise
have attended them.
It is a source of some considerable satisfaction to find
that four of the Sub-districts, viz. Clapham, Wandsworth,
Strcatham, and Putney, had no necessity whatever to refer
any cases of nuisance or other sanitary matter to magisterial
investigation. Battersea, however, has recorded in
the table referred to no fewer than 40 such appeals. Pig
nuisances, with which Battersea seems fated to be
troubled (with at present very little prospect of permanent
relief,) appears to have constituted the majority of these
appeals, and it is hardly necessary to say that until, the
Home Secretary can introduce into one of the many
projected sanitary measures a clause that shall insist on all
piggeries being licensed in the same way as are the
slaughter-houses and cow-sheds throughout the Metropolis,
very little good will result from these frequent contentions
in Police Courts.
Water Supply.—It affords some satisfaction to find
that the water supplied by the Companies to this District
has been of late of rather better quality than formerly,
but still occasional complaints are heard of its incomplete
filtration.
Whilst this Report was being prepared for press, Dr.
Frankland made the following Official Report:—
" Taking the amount of organic impurity contained in a given
quantity of the Kent Company's water as ninety, the proportional
amount in an equal quantity of water supplied by each of the other