Analysis of the evidence in favour of the constant supply system : given before the Health of Towns Commissioners, with remarks thereon / by Thomas Wicksteed.

  • Wicksteed, Thomas.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Analysis of the evidence in favour of the constant supply system : given before the Health of Towns Commissioners, with remarks thereon / by Thomas Wicksteed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Commissioners have laboured to draw from the wit- nesses a good case for the constant supply system, and however strongly their favourable disposition towards it is developed, yet it is entirely omitted from those portions of their report which are printed in italics, as their recommendations, i. e. as the result of the varying evidence that had passed before them, and as the dicta which, under all circumstances, they consider it safe to issue on their authority. Now in making a comparison as to the cost of any article, the quantity forms an essential element, and it may be well to show here, though not perhaps strictly the place for it, the quantity of water given per house where the constant supply is in operation—and the quantity given per house upon the plan which the adoption of that system would supersede. Constant Stipply. Intermittent Supply. Gallons per house per diem. Gallons p)er house 2)er diem. Gallons. Gallons. Nottingham (SO or 90 gal- New River East London Grand Junction 129 Ions) say- Preston . . , . Greenock, 2 cub. ft. per indi- 85 76 153 213 vidual, say per house 80 3)495 3)241 Mean supply 1G5 Mean supply 80 The above comparison will show, that either the tenants under the constant supply system, receive a very stinted supply, or that the water available for