The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

quantity of the soap used for washing p

value to 18s. Bd. Wyear to a family ;

If we assume the present

iiiktion of Liverpool at

330,000, and suppose there were a suPi-
same quality now used, pdequate to the
population, there would be

y of water of the
is of that

a extra rxprnse of no tess

than £55,000 a year to the town, in addition to the welt,
and tear of clothes. Water, however, could not. be ob-
tained quite pure, but if it could be had with a h.rdness
of two degrees a gallon, which we believe to be quite pot-
sible, a saving would be effected to Vie town of nearly
£50,000 a year; and this without taking into account the
saving accruing in manufactories, steam boilers, breweries,
&c. It is a low estimate, therefore, to state the hard
wafer tax of Liverpool at £50,000 a year, every farthing
of whic:i is actually thrown otray, without any return
whatever. Now this sum represents a capital of one
million and a quarter sterling. at 4 per cent., which
might be laid out in obta,t,ing a supply of soft water,
wi.hout adding one farthing to the present water rental
cf the town. We must iherefore have no additional
supply of hard water.

-SECoND.—We must go beyond the new red sandstone
formation for onr supply. All the water of the new red
sandstone is hard, and conta ns in addition a quantity of
sulphate of lime (plaster of Paris), in solution. Now it
has been shewn, in a communication lately made by M_
Dupasquier to the French Academy of Sciences, that all
waters containing sulphate of lime in solution are ii.jurious
health, arid are to be avoided • —huQ

•sc a very
strong argument for obtaining our supply from some other
formation, which does not yield that ingredient.

THIRD.—We must have an ample supply. In order to
meet every necessity for domestic uses, flushing the suers.
washing and wattring streets, supplying the shipping.
steam-engines, manufactories, &c., there oneht fn hP

command of water even g
Glasgow. We wart at lea

greater than is propos' d for
abt twenty millions of gallons

per day. and as much more
provide for the great prosprctiv
tion. The contemn'
of gallons would therefore _
he forgotten that the present
250 gallons per diem to eact

n grt, in order to

crtase of the popula

ated dail

ply of tbir

oo mud

f Rrir

citiz-ns of

New York t

Foy RTH.- The intermittent
longer be tolerated. It is a
well as a very expensive n.eth,

t of sup;

A it not
s about

/ must Re

!nt, as
Asked

character of the country to submit to its conrinuatice—.
We can never expect to realize all the benefits of water

as a sanatory agent, till every street and house has a con-
stant supply, day and night, at high pressure, and all
water cisterns are removed out of the way.

ANNALS OF.THE POOR.—Mr. Wakley held an inquest
at Chelfea last Saturday, on the body of a female infant
thrte months old, the child of very poor parents named
Frith. The father is a man of good character, who
struggled hard to support his wife and two children, but
sickness carve upon him, and he was unable to work
constantly. Little by little, the family Funk down to the
lowest state of destitution, and when the child on whom
the inquest was held was born, the mother was too weak
y tried to feed

to afford it sustenance from he-r breast
it ns they best could, but it a

;ned and died, most pro-

bably through want of proper nouns

weeks before the

Ms wife applied to t

Which was offered tt.

About three

ern on condition that they shoul

into the workhouse, but the man declined t
would break up Lis little home that was d

it
to him."

do so"

They lived during his illness by pawning their clothes anti
moveables, the usual recourse of persons so situated.
When they appeared before the corner on Saturday, they
were frighfully emaciated. and the woman's intellect ap-
peared to have been affected by Want of food. Mr.
Bush, the relieving officer, when asked by the coroner

why he refused relief, said be bad done all he coul i for
them. He offered them the workhouse, and they re-
fused it; he acted strictly by the law. The coroner
doubted whether Mr. Bush's interpretation of the
law was correct, and assumed, that as the man was
sick he was bound to relieve their family. Mr. Keene,
the medical officer, stated that the man looked very thin
arid miserable when he was suffering under the quinsey.
He did not order him nourishing food, as a man with a
quinsey could not swallow. On a former occasion he had
ordered nourishing food, and that order had not been at•
tended to. A verdict of "natural death" was returned
1, respect to the child, and the coroner and jury con-
-, censt, •-g the relieving officer of the paria)-
fo be wants of the family, wile.-

corred in censuriu.

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