Metropolitan water supply, present and future ; in four letters to the "Daily News" newspaper / by John Loude Tabberner.

  • Tabberner, John Loude.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Metropolitan water supply, present and future ; in four letters to the "Daily News" newspaper / by John Loude Tabberner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    or the principles upon which they are founded, would be taking away the internal pillars which sup]3ort the structure of the constitution, leaving only the bare external portions of the fabric, first to totter, and then to fall. But while I seriously and sedulously advocate local government as a civil right, and as an invul- nerable safeguard to our international prosperity and peace, I am not insensible to the growing abuses it is subjected to, as the wealth of the general community augments, and as the population and civil responsibilities of each municipality increases; and as these respective developments of civilisation naturally enlarge, it is essential, having due regard to a fair representation of all interests, to centralise the local administration of all large cities within one, or as few common scopes of action as possible, so as to secure economy, uniformity, and efficiency in all mu- nicipal operations. And I further submit, that just in proportion as it is essential to have a check upon the Government's expenditure of the public revenue through the Commons' House of Parliament, so it is expedient to have a check upon local administrations to preclude the possibility of abuses, through a counter resjDonsibility;—such or similar to that indicated in the following correspondence. I am faithfully yours, JOHN LOUDE 1ABBERNER. 6, Essex Street, Strand, London, March 30th, 1850.