XXVI. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



at Birmingham with 800,000 people was 24*56 gallons, of 

 which 15*29 gallons were supplied for domestic purposes, 

 and 9*27 gallons for trade and public purposes. At Man- 

 chester, with a population of 1,100,000 persons, the con- 

 sumption per capita daily was 29*5 gallons, of which 16*5 

 gallons were supplied for domestic, and 13 gallons for trade 

 purposes. At Liverpool, with 968,000 population, the con- 

 sumption per capita daily was 31*17 gallons, of which 17*89 

 gallons were supplied for domestic and 13*28 gallons for 

 trade purposes. At Glasgow, with a population of 1,000,000, 

 the consumption per capita daily was 54 gallons, of which 

 34 gallons were for domestic and 20 gallons for trade pur- 

 poses. At Dublin, with a population of 320,000, the con- 

 sumption per capita daily was 36 gallons, of which 29 were 

 for domestic and 7 for trade purposes. At Paris, with a 

 population of 2,600,000, the consumption per capita daily 

 was 46*86 gallons, of which 18*05 gallons were for domestic 

 purposes and 30*81 for trade purposes. At London, with a 

 population of 5,953,000, the consumption per capita daily 

 was 35 gallons, of which 27 gallons were for domestic and 

 8 gallons for trade purposes. 



As our population is close upon one million, we need 

 hardly fear a great increase of water from prospective 

 manufacturing industries, seeing that the consumption 

 per capita daily on the list just quoted ranges from 7 

 gallons at Dublin, to 30*81 gallons at Paris for trade and 

 public purposes, the average being under 12 gallons per 

 head. With reference to the amount which should be 

 sufficient for domestic purposes, the following quotation 

 is from a report of a committee on water consumption, 

 published in the Journal of the American Water Works 

 Association, March 1915, after investigating the water 

 supply services of about 260 towns in the United States : — 



" Domestic use : Our results seem to indicate that the 

 old standard of 100 gallons per capita, or even 50 gallons, 



