Water supply of the city of Aberdeen : general report on the water supply of large towns, as compared with Aberdeen : and financial memorandum on the Aberdeen Water Works : with analyses of the Aberdeen water by Professor Brazier, of the Aberdeen University.

Date:
1869
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Credit: Water supply of the city of Aberdeen : general report on the water supply of large towns, as compared with Aberdeen : and financial memorandum on the Aberdeen Water Works : with analyses of the Aberdeen water by Professor Brazier, of the Aberdeen University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    l>lumbei' work in houses, in service cocks, leakage of water froiu l)ipes and cocks,* ball-cocks and cisterns in water closets, and other cisterns being allowed constantly to overflow, and by water closet handles being propped up, and the water left to run all night.t There is also a great loss of water by Fountains playing in private gardens—also, by watering of flowers in lawns by hosepipes, which, not being strictly domestic purposes, ouglit to be charged for addi- tional. Owing to the difficulties of prevention of waste, when once it becomes a habit of the people in large towns, it is important that measures should be adopted of frequent house to house inspection by the officials of the Board, in order timeously to check this wjisteful practice. The results of the information obtained under this head are briefly condensed in the foliowino- table :— SOURCE OF SUPPLY. ce P pi ^ ^ g ^- .'X O'^ • o , D ^ P< (/J =S ft I ABEEDEEN, London,- - Manchester, Sheffield, - Biistol, - - Sunderland, Newcastle, - Oxford, Cambridge, Jjancaster, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh, - Dundee, -(J d) O CO ^ O 3 P o g RIVER DEE, I Thames, New Eiver, & ) \ Eiver Lea, - - J Eiver and Springs, Moors, - - - Eiver and Springs, { Shafts sunk in the Lime-) ( stone, - - - < Eiver and S])rings, Artificial Lake, - Springs, Do. ... Eiver and Springs, r Loch Katrine & Eivulet) ( Brookburn, - -j Eiver and Springs, Sti-eams, - - _ 31 28 to 29 20 18 24 20 30 70 to 80 19 27 2G 50 1 40 X 5 galls. 3 + A + * + n + 7 + • + A + * 8 5 5 » j> >> ?> No return I No return to rise'fnZSSf L'S^tTaS^^^^^^ '^S^or'*'- ° '^^^^--> found ™o ftXfeS ISS^ ? inese ngwes are approximations.