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around us, perhaps, however, a difficulty that is not insuper- 

 able, although the climate raust always be considered. To 

 put on this water with the hose, is certainly out of the ques- 

 tion. It is in fact to form a new waterworks of a reversed 

 kind, and to give out all the water of the present waterworks 

 and more, not by the standing pipes in the streets and houses, 

 such as at present deliver it, but by the hose or flexible pipes 

 held in men's hands continually until all is run out. 



If the use of sewage manure were to be generally adopted, 

 the sewers must be carried out of the town ; they would then 

 not run into the river, but probably along the river. It 

 would be impossible to remove the water from them as rapidly 

 and as regularly as it flows, so that it would be needful to 

 have a large tank or reservoir. This reservoir would receive 

 all the water which now is supplied by the waterworks ; and, 

 in fact, would be a second waterworks on a scale greater 

 than the one at Woodhead. The advocates for sewerage 

 manure say that it may be put on in all weathers ; but we 

 cannot suppose that this will occur, neither can we possibly 

 imagine any probable circumstances which would induce the 

 men of Lancashire to stand with hose in hand until that 

 enormous amount of water were put upon the land. It must 

 be done by the irrigation system, or the method must be 

 resorted to of having separate drainage for water closets; 

 by whom it was originally proposed I do not know, but 

 which I have advocated in a short paper on Sanitary economy 

 in some of your hands. My own belief is, that this would 

 be an excellent system ; the best hitherto proposed, both as 

 to convenience and to profit. It is unnecessary, however, to 

 dwell long on it. I conceive that if it were adopted, the 

 sewers would produce a manure so strong that it might 

 readily be mixed with the refuse water from the factories, and 

 still be valuable. I do not, however, think that it is essen- 

 tial to use it all liquid. In the above state it might be used 

 liquid near the towns. And here we come to another dif- 



