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most kindly offered to supply me with the two media
specially recommended for the cultivations I required
to make and I feel greatly indebted to them. No
doubt it will be understood by the Council that these
scientific investigations are of comparatively recent
discovery, and therefore any assistance given to me in
perfecting my knowledge was most acceptable and
deserves my sincerest thanks. The importance of these
examinations will be apparent and will be of the
greatest assistance, not only to me at the hospital, but
throughout the district.
EXPENSES.
The great increase in the supply of water is in
part due to a different arrangement of the apportionment
by meter, the amount of the charge having
been too little in the previous years; but it is also
due to the frequency with which the automatic
flushing cisterns at the head of the drains discharge
themselves in the 24 hours; it had been found that
the drains were liable to become choked and the
cisterns were consequently set to empty much more
frequently; there are 7 of them and they each contain
200 gallons. I found by measuring the quantity
of water flowing in, that one cistern would discharge
between every three and four hours ; the others were
not set to go off so frequently.