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WATER-SUPPLY.
through all the streets to the tops of almost all the
houses, at a cost, for the dwellings of the poor, of
about five farthings per week.'
On the relative merits or demerits of the two
competing systems of supply, I have only to speak
so far as their adaptation to sanitary purposes is
concerned. In this respect, I have no hesitation
in saying that the system of constant high-pressure
supply is immeasurably superior to its rival;
so superior, that unless competent engineering
authorities should decide on its practical inapplicability
to the City of London, I would strongly
recommend its adoption as the only one, in my
judgment, by which the growing necessities of
the population can be fully and effectively satisfied.