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Water Supply
Since my last Quarterly Report, a considerable addition has been made
in the number of the water-waste preventers in this district There have
been erected 20 new water-waste preventers within the last three months
There are now, at the present time, 53 places supplied with water direct
from the main, by means of these machines, and the inhabitants of these
places can have pure water at all times of the day or night, in sufficient
quantity for all household purposes In each of the undermentioned
places a water-waste preventer has been erected since my last Quarterly
Report:
Hunt Court Gower's Place Keate Court
Eele Place Garden Court New Court, C C
Wilk Court Half Wilk Court Union Court, C C
Coburg Court Crown Court, C C Pope's Head Court
35, Great Pearl St Devonshire Place Goulston St 9,10,11
Russell Court Holloway Court Slater's Court
Crown Court, W C Kittleby Court
The constant supply of water to the poor is one of the most valuable
sanitary improvements that has been effected in this district since the formation
of your Board The poor appear to fully appreciate the great boon
that has been conferred upon them by this mode of supply; they have
now in all these places an abundance of water, but it is without waste, so
that, while they are benefitted, the Companies are not injured; and I have
no doubt that, it will be found, less water is required to be delivered by
the Companies under the new system than under the old plan of the standtap
I am able to report that, both the Water Companies, which supply
this district, are now willing, and I believe anxious, that all the courts
should be supplied on the constant service, and that within the last six
weeks, the New Eiver Company have granted permission to the owners of
10 courts in Blue Anchor Yard, to erect a water-waste preventer in each As
only about an eighth part of this district is supplied by the New Eiver Company,
the proportion of water-waste preventers will, when all these courts are
supplied, be fully equal to that of the East London, and I have no doubt
that, from the friendly co-operation of the Companies, the whole of the
poor localities will be supplied on the constant service New Court, in
Fashion Street, and Dale Court, are likewise supplied direct from the main;
in the former, by means of an ordinary tap in the yard of each house, and
in the latter by a small pipe, from which water is constantly flowing
The total number of houses occupied by poor persons, which are supplied
with water on the constant service, is about 583, which contain a
population of about 4,664 In several courts, where the supply of water has