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very slowly. In November, 1882, the total
number of houses supplied by that Company
was 98,286—3,161 out of that number being on
constant supply, and 95,125 being supplied on
the intermittent system, while in August, 1883,
there were 10,022 houses being supplied by the
same Company, 3,378 of that number being on
constant supply, and 96,644 on the intermittent
system, thus showing an increase of 1,736
houses to be supplied in the ten months, with
a total increase of 217 only placed on constant
supply, or in other words, the Southwark and
Vauxhall Water Company have 1,519 more
houses on the intermittent system of supply
than for the ten months previous—a rate of
progress by no means calculated to carry out
the object in view, or such progress as can be
said to give any evidence of their being able to
fully supply this and the other South London
Parishes on the constant system for many years
to come. In Camberwell the total number of
houses supplied on the constant system by the
Lambeth, Kent, and Southwark and Vauxhall
Water Companies was about 8,000 out of a
total of 32,000, thus leaving about 24,000 still
supplied on the intermittent system.