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The sub-sections referred to are as follows, viz.:—
(d) The gas supplied by the Company shall not contain more than
twenty grains of sulphur in any form in one hundred feet of gas.
(e) No forfeiture shall be incurred in any case with respect to
which it is proved before the justices that the excess of impurity was
occasioned by unavoidable cause or accident and unless that excess shall
amount to two grains upon the average of six consecutive week days or
ten grains upon any one day.
(f) In the event of the gas examiner finding any such impurity in
the gas he shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Company at their
office.
75. The Company's Act of 1900 also provided that in substitution
of the prescribed testing places (viz., at the works of the
Company) the Council shall provide and maintain two sufficient
buildings or set apart a portion of some place at Wandsworth
and some other place at Putney as may be agreed upon between
the District Board and the Company for testing places, and that
the Company shall erect and thereafter maintain in such buildings
or places testing apparatus for testing the purity and illuminating
power of the gas supplied by the Company in accordance with the
provisions of the Gas Works (Clauses) Act, 1871, as varied by
the Act of 1900. The Gas Works (Clauses) Act of 1871 does not
provide for testing for sulphur impurities other than sulphuretted
hydrogen, whilst the provisions of sub-sections (d), (e), and
(/) of section 38 of the Act of 1900, which it is now proposed to
repeal, deal with sulphur impurities in any form.
76. The Metropolitan Gas Committee appointed by the Board
of Trade in 1904 to inquire and report as to the statutory requirements
relating to the illuminating power and purity of gas supplied
by the Metropolitan Gas Companies, and as to the methods
adopted for testing the same, and as to whether any alteration
was desirable in such requirements or methods, and, if so,
whether any consequential alteration should be made in the standard
price of gas, reported to the effect that only a small percentage
of the gas undertakings in the United Kingdom were
required to take sulphur products other than sulphuretted hydrogen
out of the gas they supplied, that it did not appear that any
complaints were made by the inhabitants of other districts on the
ground that the gas thus unpurified caused injury to health or