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At the same Meeting, another question at
issue between the Committee and the Company
was discussed, viz.:— the suggestion made to the
Company by me on the 9th of July, 1858, and
repeated on several occasions subsequently, that
the levels of the weir should be so altered that
the whole of the water flowing in at the west
end should be discharged at the extreme or east
end of the Basin in such a manner as to produce
a current along its whole length. It having
been replied on the part of the Company that
in the opinion of their Engineer there were serious
engineering difficulties in the way of the proposed
alteration, it was agreed that a conference should
take place on the subject, between this gentleman
and the Surveyor of the Vestry. In
consequence of this conference, my suggestion
was shortly afterwards partially carried out. The
water is not now discharged near the entrance
as formerly ; some of it escapes at the east end,
but the remainder is allowed to pass out by
an outlet about half way down, so that the
foulest part of the Basin receives the benefit of a
certain proportion only of the available current.
Conveyance of Persons suffering from Smallpox,
and other contagious diseases.
The visitation of Smallpox which began in
the winter of 1863-4, increased in the following