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tion should be enforced on consumers, but I have not been
able to ascertain that the Local Authority has the power
which, by implication, Sir Francis Bolton appears to credit
them with ; and as for the Companies, we are likely enough
still to have occasion to complain, as in former years, that,
as a rule, they do not, and will not, systematically enforce the
regulations, excepting for their own trading purposes.
Nothing short of an epidemic of cholera will suffice to bring
about universal compliance with the advice of the Water
Examiner, viz., by the exercise of the powers possessed by the
Water Companies under Regulation 14.
GAS.
The subjoined tables, based on the quarterly reports of the
Chief Gas Examiner, summarise the principal results
(averages), of the daily testings, at the Ladbroke Grove Station,
of the " common gas," manufactured at Kensal Green
by the Gas Light and Coke Company.

The minimum did not on any occasion fall below the
Parliamentary Standard, and the average was considerably
above the standard.
2. With respect to purity. Sulphuretted hydrogen was not
present in the gas at any time, and the proportion of sulphur
in any other form was always considerably below the limit
fixed by the Acts of Parliament.