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deleterious and noxious common sewers, detrimental to comfort and hostile to healthe 
The amount of the water supply, and its cost, for the several cities and towns h 
enumerated, were given in the following tabulated form :— 
Population Daily Dail Prospective 
Sawne, within Daily supply for Conn Sata supply 
bounds of supply. each ‘abial every £ daily in 
supply. inhabitant, B expended. | addition. 
Gallons. Gallons. £ Gallons. Gallons. 
London ..|2,667,917 | 81,025,842 30°3 7,102,823 11°4 2 
Paris ....|1,100,000 | 26,350,000] 24: 800,000 33° 20,000,000 
Hamburg..| 160,000 | 5,000,000 31°25 170,000 29°50 Haid 
New York 713,000 | 28,000,000 89°27 {1,800,000 15'S oe 
Manchester| 500,000 | 11,000,000 22° 1,300,000 85 14,000,000 
Liverpool..| 500,000 |} 1 1,000,000 22° 1,640,000 ’ ni 
Leeds ....| 153,000 | 1,850,000; 12° 283,871 (ige Sc 
Edinburgh 215,000 | 4,800,000 22°3 456,000 10°5 2,000,003 
Aberdeen .. 65,000 | 1,200,000 18°4 50,000 24° a 
Dundee.... 96,000 | 1,750,000 18°2 139,000 12°5 An 
Greenock .. 40,000 | 2,112,500 52°8 90,000 23°4 A 
Paisley.... 48,450 | 1,021,452 21° 60,000 ays 
Glasgow ..| 420,000 |16,710,000| 39°8 651,199 26° 20,000,000 
In conclusion, Dr. Strang stated, that from the statistical figures he had brought 
forward the following results might be drawn :— 
lst. The fact of a present prevailing anxiety for an abundant and pure supply of 
water, irrespective of every difficulty, and at any cost. 
2nd. The fact of a growing consumption of water on the part of those who have 
had it at command, and the necessity of limiting as far as possible the quantity 
allowed to run to waste. , 
3rd. That while the increasing abundance of water has necessarily added to the 
comfort and health of the people, by enabling them to have baths and other conve- 
niences easily and cheaply, it has at the same time tended to encourage city and 
house impurities being improperly carried away, and that too in a manner cal- 
culated rather to transfer than to abolish nuisances. 
- 4th. That an abundance of water brought within every house, without due attention 
being paid to the carrying off to a distance, or otherwise separating, the solid sewage 
from the water before it falls into any stream, is a serious and growing evil which 
ought to be forthwith remedied, particularly on the part of those towns and villages 
which line rivers from which other towns are deriving their supply of water. 
5th. That an abundant supply of water is, in short, a limited benefit, unless pro- 
vision be at the same time made for a perfect and profitable riddance of the increased 
sewage which it invariably creates. 
On Subjects connected with Crime and Punishment. 
By W.M. Tarrt, FSS. 
After noticing how much there was still to be done towards carrying into effect the 
improvements connected with our criminal legislation, Mr. Tartt briefly adverted to 
the anomalies in prison discipline, and went on to suggest that there are discre- 
pancies as much opposed to any established principle in some of our preliminary 
proceedings. He took as one of his examples the administration of the Criminal Justice 
Act of 1855. Asa measure of economy, it was allowed that it had been eminently 
successful. A table which he had compiled from the accounts of a single county, 
for the last five years, gave the average cost of trials at Quarter Sessions, at £9 2s. 3d. 
each, while the summary convictions under the Criminal Justice Act had only cost 
_£13s.4d. each (for the whole kingdom they were £1 13s.) ; and the saving during 
two years, in one county alone, had been £2806. But he dwelt at some length 
upon the uncertainty and total absence of classification, with which the different 
