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WATER-SUPPLY.
on the poor than on the rich, yet the latter are by
no means without experience on the subject.
The following are the chief conditions in respect
of water supply, which peremptorily require
to be fulfilled:—
1. That every house should be separately supplied
with water, and that where the house is a
lodging-house, or where the several floors are let
as separate tenements, the supply of water should
extend to each inhabited floor.
2. That every privy should have a supply of
water, applicable as often as it may be required,
and sufficient in volume to effect at each application,
a thorough flushing and purification of the
discharge-pipe of the privy.
3. That in every court, at the point remotest
from the sewer-grating, there should be a standcock
for the cleansing of the court; and
4. That at all these points there should always
and uninterruptedly be a sufficiency of water to
fulfil all reasonable requirements of the population.
Now, if my statements are accurate with regard
to the imperfect manner in which thousands participate
in the distribution of water, even for
their personal necessities; if my statements are
again accurate with respect to house drainage, and