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to reiterate in his monthly reports, to the very last, sound advice
which might have done good if only it could have been impressed
on every individual householder; pointing out, as he did, that it
the conditions contained in Regulation 14 were observed by consumers
and by local (i.e., nuisance or sanitary) authorities, as
well as by the Companies, many of the evils complained of would
be prevented. Compliance with the regulation, doubtless,,
should be enforced upon consumers, but the Local Authorities
have not the power with which, by implication, Sir F. Bolton
credited them; 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 regulation,
excepting for their own trading purposes. I fear that
nothing short of an epidemic of cholera will suffice to bring about
compliance with the advice of the late Water Examiner—viz., by
the exercise of the power possessed by the Water Companies
under Regulation 14.
GAS.
The subjoined Tables, based on the quarterly reports of theChief
Gas Examiner, summarise the principal results (averages)
of the daily testings at the Ladbroke Grove Station of the
" common gas," manufactured by the Gas Light and Coke Company
at their Kensal Green Works, and supplied in this Parish.