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water supplied to the premises. The Metropolitan
authority has power to apply to the water company
to furnish a constant supply to a district, and if
there is any reasonable delay in such supply the
Board of Trade has power to require it, when complaint
is made thereof.
In those cases when e a group or number of dwelling-houses
are situate in a court or passage, or
otherwise in contiguity with one another, and it
appears to the Board of Trade, on the report of the
nuisance authority, that a constant supply cannot
be well and effectually provided for such group of
houses, except by means of a stand-pipe or other
apparatus placed outside the dwelling houses, the
Board of Trade may order such means of supply,
and the expense thereof shall be borne by the owner
of the dwelling-houses, or, if there be more than one
owner, by the respective owners in such proportion
as the Board of Trade may direct.
And with the view of preventing such waste of
water as might occasion public calamity, it is provided
that within six months of the passing of the
Act, the Companies shall, with the approval of the
Board of Trade, make such regulations as are
necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing
the waste or misuse of water; and therein, amongst
other things, they may prescribe the size, nature,