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44 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
There are 43 standposts on the mains of the Grand
Junction Water Company and 10 on the West Middlesex
Water Company, the quantity of water taken being
registered by a water-meter attached to each standpost,
the indices of the meters being taken twice
monthly.
Horses.—The losses by deaths and sales during
the year Lave been as follow:—
No. 16.—A brown gelding, purchased in 1880, slaughtered
May 7th, 1889, from injured coffin joint.
No, 2.—A black gelding, purchased in 1876, died June 11th
1889, from old age.
No. 70.—A bay gelding, purchased in 1887, slaughtered
September 20th, 1889, cankered near-forefoot.
No. 42.—A bay gelding, purchased in 1884, died October 1st,
1889, inflammation of the bowels, result of a bad cold.
No. 62.—A black golding, purchased in 1886, died January
24th, 1890, suffering from stiffness of loins, resulting
from an affection of the spine. It was also very lame on
near-hindleg.
No. 60.—A chostnut gelding, purchased in 1885, died March
17th, 1890, rupture of one of the large pulmonary
blood-vessols. The post-mortem showed that the
animal's heart was diseased.
At the close of the watering season, five old
horses not worth wintering were weeded out and sold
by public auction at Mr. Ward's Repository, Edgware
Road, realizing an average of £7 7s. Od. ; these horses
worked an average of eight years each.