as well as for supplying private houses with the means of sea- 
bathing in an easy way. The history of this experiment and 
of several others will be found well stated in an article in the 
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Nov. 8th, which is well worth the 
study of all the engineering and sanitary advisers of sea-port 
towns. A little under 100,000 gallons a day can be drawn 
from the sea. At the further end of the system, at the village 
of Chirton, is a reservoir capable of holding 50,000 gallons to 
relieve the pipes from pressure. l T p to the end of 1874 the 
total sum expended on the works and plants was £2,500. Then 
came a very profitable extensives of the system to Tyns- 
mouth. Since then another extension and a new reservoir ca- 
pable of holding 250,000 gallons has been sanctioned. The 
latter will cost £2,000 and the mains £500 making a total ex- 
penditure of £7,000. In 1807 and 1868 there was a famine 
water and the corporation could scarcely purchase water for 
the streets, and the sewers went un flushed for a long time. In 
the autumn of 1868, as our readers may remember, these oc- 
cured in the town of North Shields one of the most remarkable 
outbreaks of the typhoid on record to the number of 700 or 
800 cases. Out of these experiences has arisen this great ex- 
periment in sanitation. Too much praise cannot be given to 
the Sanitaay Committee of the Tynsmouth Town Council acting 
under the advice of their borough Surveyor, Mr. J. P. Spencer 
C. E., who with other engineers has been consulted on the 
feasibility of supplying London with salt water for sanitary 
purposes.” 
