10 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF NOTTINGHAM AND DISTRICT 



position to which its geographical situation entitles it. The industrial 

 development of the town was closely alhed to the growth of the lace trade, 

 but it is no longer dependent on a ' staple trade ' only, for it is now known 

 as the City of innumerable industries. 



In addition to the manufacture of lace the following industries are 

 carried on : hosiery, bleaching, dyeing and dressing, engineering, bicycles, 

 clothing, leather, pharmaceutical products, brewing, malting, tobacco, 

 printing, and many others. 



Nottingham is fortunate in its municipal and social services, in the 

 administration of which the manufacturing interests of the city are given 

 sympathetic consideration. Gas, electricity, water and transport ser- 

 vices are municipally controlled and managed on sound and successful 

 commercial lines. It also has a fine educational system culminating in a 

 University College. 



The following is a short resume of the public utility and health ser- 

 vices of the city which have helped to estabhsh Nottingham's claim to be 

 one of the most progressive municipahties in the Country. 



Water 



Water is obtained from wells, sunk in the Bunter Beds of the new red 

 sandstone, and from storage reservoirs situated about fifty miles from the 

 city, in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District. The Derwent water 

 from Derbyshire is of a soft quality and, like the sandstone water, shews 

 by analysis a high standard of purity. The Derwent supply is delivered 

 into the north-west portion of the Nottingham area, at the boundary of 

 the Langley Mill and Eastwood parishes, the pressure being sufficient to 

 gravitate water into the Ramsdale Hill Reservoir. The elevation of this 

 reservoir is about 500 feet above Ordnance datum, and thus exceeds all 

 the high points within the city and surrounding district. About 32 per 

 cent of the city's total water consumption is derived from the Derwent 

 supply, and the other 68 per cent from the Corporation's own sandstone 

 wells. 



The total area within the compulsory limits of supply as defined by the 

 various Acts of Parliament and Provisional Orders, is about 243 square 

 miles. In addition, there are parishes supplied, by agreement, outside the 

 Parhamentary area. The bulk of the water is supplied from five pumping 

 stations situated at Basford, Bestwood, Papplewick, Burton Joyce and 

 Boughton, being pumped direct from wells and boreholes into eight 

 covered service reservoirs from which it gravitates to the premises supphed. 



The total quantity of water distributed during the year ended March 

 1937 was 5,048,709,538 gallons, equal to nearly 22y million tons, an average 

 of over 13| milHon gallons per day. Of this quantity about 17 gallons 

 per head per day were used for domestic purposes, and about 12| gallons 

 per head per day for trade and special purposes. The estimated popu- 

 lation supplied at the end of March 1937 was 460,000. Water is retailed 

 to consumers and small traders at a fixed annual charge, varying according 

 to the gross rateable value of the premises occupied, and to large traders 

 at so much per thousand gallons passed through meters. The maximum 

 pressure in the mains is about eighty pounds per square inch. The total 



