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on the constant system.
2nd.—Cisterns are used for storing water for baths and water-closets
in all houses under £20 per annum
3rd —In only a few old houses are the closets supplied from the same
receptacle supplying water for drinking purposes.
4th.—Stand-pipes constantly charged with water, are used in courts,
one pipe supplying about 12 cottages.
5th.—There are no complaints respecting the quantity of water supplied,
or of inconvenience arising from the mode of supply. The water is said to
be, next to Glasgow, the purest in the kingdom. It is spring water, and is
passed through wire strainers about 60 strands to an inch.
6th.—There is very little waste of water; the consumption averages 21
gallons per head.
7th.—The supply of water is principally within the curtilage of each
house.
Mr. Berrey says, that cisterns are required only in those houses where
there are baths and water closets, the service cistern for water closets is
supplied from the main cistern, a tap carried into each house and into each
apartment occupied by the poor, is the plan most approved of by
that gentleman.
The practical application and usefulness of the constant supply is now
about to be tested in this district, as will be seen by the following extract
from a report of an examination made by Major Bolton during the month
of April 1874, of the water supplied by the Metropolitan Water Companies:—
"The New River Company have the power of affording effective
constant service in their district. They have also erected a new high
service covered reservoir to contain 1,000,000 gallons at Southgate, in
anticipation of the requirements of the water supply to Edmonton parish.
The Company have in a number of cases afforded constant supply by means
of stand-pipes and have agreed with a Committee of the Corporation of the
City of London to furnish constant supply at once to a large number of
the houses of the poor situated in courts within the city bounds; negociations
are also pending for the erection of a number of fire hydrants in the
city.
" The East London Company are extending the constant system of
supply in their district, and have given formal notice to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and to the Corporation of the City of London that they
propose within the next six months to give a constant snpply of water
throughout the district, or area, bounded by, and contained within imaginary
lines drawn along the respective centres of the Bethnal Green Road, of
Brick Lane, Spitalfields, of Osborn Street, and High Street, Whitechapel,
of High Street, Shoreditch, of Norton Folgate, of Bisliopsgate Street
Without, of Artillery Lane, of Sandy's Row, and of Middlesex Street, and
situate within the parishes of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, Christ Church,
Spitalfields, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, and St. Mary, Whitechapel, and
the parishes or liberties of Norton Folgate, and the Old Artillery Ground,