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The advantages to all concerned are very obvious.
Not the least important is this, that it would be a
profitable undertaking for the rate-payers. Horsekeepers
might receive 10s. per annum for every horse
they kept—the parish, after paying that, besides the expenses
of collecting, would hand over a good sum to the
Treasurer. The duty of manure inspection would
then be more simple and effective than it is at present,
or can be hoped for.
The Water supply and Surface Wells.
No complaints have reached me of the quality of
the water of the two Companies supplying the
inhabitants of this Parish, nor do the monthly analyses
of Dr. Frankland lead to any suspicion of impurities
worth mentioning. In October last, Major Bolton
reported that the state of the Thames at Hampton,
Molesey and Sunbury, where the intake of the West
Middlesex and Grand Junction is situate, was in a
very satisfactory state; the West Middlesex was at
one time the only Company that had storage conveniences
to avoid the necessity of taking in water when
the Thames was flooded, such being a cause of turbidity.
The waters are now delivered in a clear and very transparent
condition.
Last year a return was asked for by the Secretary
of State of the Public pumps supplied by surface
wells, and how many had been permanently closed,
or were in use. In preparing this return, I found that all
the public pumps in the Parish have within the last
7 years been closed as unfit for domestic use. But at
the time I discovered many private wells supplying
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