SCHEDULE C.

Setting forth in relation to each company the date antecedent to which the accounts of such company shall not be investigated.

The Governor and Company of the New River 16th day of July, 1866. brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London, commonly called the New River Com

pany.

The Company of Proprietors of the East London
Waterworks.

The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company.
The West Middlesex Waterworks Company.
The Lambeth Waterworks Company

The Governor and Company of Chelsea Water-
works.

The Grand Junction Waterworks Company The Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks.

15th day of July, 1867.

12th day of April, 1867. 13th day of May, 1869. 13th day of May, 1869. 3rd day of June, 1864.

29th day of May, 1868. 30th day of June, 1864.

SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF WASTE AND MISUSE OF WATER.

THE general acts make provision for the prevention of waste in cases where constant service is not compulsory. Even in those cases these provisions have been found scarcely adequate for the effectual and complete prevention of the evils they were intended to remedy.

It has therefore become a not uncommon practice for parliament to concede to water companies the power of making regulations of a special character for preventing waste, misuse, undue consumption or contamination of the water of the company.

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In the case of the metropolis the regulations authorized by The Metropolis Water Act, 1871" (see ante, pp. 297 et seq.), have been settled by the board of trade, and the local government board have published them as "specimen regulations," which will be found useful in other towns. The difficulty of checking waste and at the same time affording a constant service has long been solved in such places as Norwich, Great Yarmouth, and Sheffield, and more recently in such places as Portsmouth and Devonport. In all of these places the internal fittings have been brought effectually under the control of the water companies; and regulations for preventing waste, &c. are in force;-in each instance in pursuance of authority contained in the several special acts. In the case of Sheffield these regulations were settled and approved by the justices after long discussion. In the case of Portsmouth they were settled by an arbitrator, also after much discussion. In the case of Devonport they were (also after much opposition) settled and approved by the local government board. In the case of Bury (Lancashire) the regulations have received the sanction of parliament itself, and form Schedule G of "The Bury Improvement Act, 1872."

As these various regulations are likely to prove of great service as precedents in other cases, it has been considered of advantage to insert them, along with (also as precedents) the provisions of the special acts, in the cases of Norwich and Sheffield.*

(1) METROPOLIS.

REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE METROPOLIS WATER ACT, 1871.†

1. No "communication pipe" for the conveyance of water from the Place of comwaterworks of the company into any premises shall hereafter be laid munication until after the point or place at which such "communication pipe" is pipe. proposed to be brought into such premises shall have had the approval of

the company.

2. No lead pipe shall hereafter be laid or fixed in or about any pre- Weight of lead mises for the conveyance of or in connection with the water supplied by pipes. the company (except when and as otherwise authorized by these regulations, or by the company), unless the same shall be of equal thickness throughout, and of at least the weight following, that is to say:

3. Every pipe hereafter laid or fixed in the interior of any dwelling- Interior pipes. house for the conveyance of, or in connection with, the water of the company, must, unless with the consent of the company, if in contact with the ground, be of lead, but may otherwise be of lead, copper, or wrought iron, at the option of the consumer.

4. No house shall, unless with the permission of the company in writing, be hereafter fitted with more than one "communication pipe.' 5. Every house supplied with water by the company (except in cases of stand pipes) shall have its own separate "communication pipe." Provided that, as far as is consistent with the special acts of the company, in the case of a group or block of houses, the water rates of which are paid by one owner, the said owner may, at his option, have one sufficient "communication pipe" for such group or block.

6. No house supplied with water by the company shall have any connection with the pipes or other fittings of any other premises, except in the case of groups or blocks of houses, referred to in the preceding regulation.

Much information on the subject of the prevention of waste may also be derived from the Special Report from the Select Committee on the Metropolis Water (No. 2) Bill, 1871, and the Minutes of Evidence appended thereto, among which will be found the regulations in use at Manchester (pp. 9-12).

As to the amendment or alteration of these regulations and the enforcement thereof, see sects. 17 et seq. of the Act of 1871.

Not more than one communication pipe to each house.

Every house, with certain exceptions, to

have its own

communication pipe. No house to have con

nection with fittings of adjoining house.

Connection to be by ferrule or stop cock.

Material and joints of external pipes.

No pipe to be laid through drains, &c.

Depth of pipes under ground.

No connection

with rain water

receptacle. Stop-valve.

Character of cisterns and ball taps.

Waste pipes to
be removed or
converted into
warning-
pipes.

Arrangement

of warning pipes.

Buried cisterns prohibited.

7. The connection of every "communication pipe" with any pipe of the company shall hereafter be made by means of a sound and suitable brass screwed ferrule or stop cock with union, and such ferrule or stop cock shall be so made as to have a clear area of waterway equal to that of a half-inch pipe. The connection of every "communication pipe" with the pipes of the company shall be made by the company's workmen, and the company shall be paid in advance the reasonable costs and charges of and incident to the making of such connexion.

8. Every "communication pipe" and every pipe external to the house and through the external walls thereof, hereafter respectively laid or fixed, in connection with the water of the company shall be of lead, and every joint thereof shall be of the kind called a "plumbing" or "wiped" joint.

9. No pipe shall be used for the conveyance of, or in connexion with, water supplied by the company, which is laid or fixed through, in, or into any drain, ashpit, sink, or manure hole, or through, in, or into any place where the water conveyed through such pipe may be liable to become fouled, except where such drain, ashpit, sink, or manure hole, or other such place, shall be in the unavoidable course of such pipe, and then in every such case such pipe shall be passed through an exterior cast-iron pipe or jacket of sufficient length and strength, and of such construction as to afford due protection to the water pipe.

10. Every pipe hereafter laid for the conveyance of, or in connection with, water supplied by the company, shall, when laid in open ground, be laid at least two feet six inches below the surface, and shall in every exposed situation be properly protected against the effects of frost.

11. No pipe for the conveyance of, or in connection with, water supplied by the company, shall communicate with any cistern, butt, or other receptacle used or intended to be used for rain water.

12. Every "communication pipe" for the conveyance of water to be supplied by the company into any premises shall have at or near its point of entrance into such premises, and if desired by the consumer within such premises, a sound and suitable stop valve of the screw down kind, with an area of waterway not less than that of a half-inch pipe, and not greater than that of the " communication pipe," the size of the valve within these limits being at the option of the consumer.

If placed in the ground such "stop valve" shall be protected by a proper cover and "guard box."

13. Every cistern used in connection with the water supplied by the company shall be made and at all times maintained water-tight, and be properly covered and placed in such a position that it may be inspected and cleansed. Every such existing cistern, if not already provided with an efficient "ball tap," and every such future cistern, shall be provided with a sound and suitable “ball tap" of the valve kind for the inlet of water.

14. No overflow or waste pipe other than a "warning pipe" shall be attached to any cistern supplied with water by the company, and every such overflow or waste pipe existing at the time when these regulations come into operation shall be removed, or at the option of the consumer shall be converted into an efficient "warning pipe," within two calendar months next after the company shall have given to the occupier of, or left at the premises in which such cistern is situate, a notice in writing requiring such alteration to be made.

15. Every "warning pipe" shall be placed in such a situation as will admit of the discharge of the water from such "warning pipe" being readily ascertained by the officers of the company. And the position of suchwarning pipe" shall not be changed without previous notice to and approval by the company.

16. No cistern buried or excavated in the ground shall be used for the storage or reception of water supplied by the company, unless the use of such cistern shall be allowed in writing by the company.

17. No wooden receptacle without a proper metallic lining shall be Butts hereafter brought into use for the storage of any water supplied by the prohibited. company.

18. No draw tap shall in future be fixed unless the same shall be Ordinary sound and suitable and of the "screw down" kind. draw tap.

19. Every draw tap in connection with any "stand pipe" or other Draw taps apparatus outside any dwelling house in a court or other public place, in connection to supply any group or number of such dwelling houses, shall be sound with stand and suitable and of the "waste preventer" kind, and be protected as far pipes. as possible from injury by frost, theft, or mischief.

closets, and urinals to have cisterns.

20. Every boiler, urinal, and watercloset, in which water supplied by Boilers, waterthe company is used (other than waterclosets in which hand flushing is employed), shall, within three months after these regulations come into operation, be served only through a cistern or service box and without a stool cock, and there shall be no direct communication from the pipes of the company to any boiler, urinal, or watercloset.

21. Every watercloset cistern or watercloset service box hereafter Watercloset fitted or fixed in which water supplied by the company is to be used, apparatus. shall have an efficient waste-preventing apparatus, so constructed as not

to be capable of discharging more than two gallons of water at each

flush.

22. Every urinal cistern in which water supplied by the company is Urinal cistern used other than public urinal cisterns, or cisterns having attached to apparatus. them a self-closing apparatus, shall have an efficient "waste-preventing" apparatus, so constructed as not to be capable of discharging more than one gallon of water at each flush.

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23. Every down pipe" hereafter fixed for the discharge of water Watercloset into the pan or basin of any watercloset shall have an internal diameter down pipes. of not less than one inch and a quarter, and if of lead shall weigh not less than nine pounds to every lineal yard.

Pipes supplying watercloset to communicate with cistern only. Bath to be without overflow pipe.

24. No pipe by which water is supplied by the company to any watercloset shall communicate with any part of such watercloset, or with any apparatus connected therewith, except the service cistern thereof. 25. No bath supplied with water by the company shall have any overflow waste pipe, except it be so arranged as to act as a "warning pipe." 26. In every bath hereafter fitted or fixed the outlet shall be distinct from, and unconnected with, the inlet or inlets; and the inlet or inlets Bath must be placed so that the orifice or orifices shall be above the highest apparatus. water level of the bath. The outlet of every such bath shall be provided

with a perfectly water-tight plug, valve, or cock.

27. No alteration shall be made in any fittings in connection with the Alteration of supply of water by the company without two days' previous notice in fittings. writing to the company.

28. Except with the written consent of the consumer, no cock, ferrule, Waterway of joint, union, valve, or other fitting, in the course of any "communica- fittings. tion pipe," shall have a waterway of less area than that of the "communication pipe," so that the waterway from the water in the district pipe or other supply pipe of the company up to and through the stop valve prescribed by Regulation No. 12, shall not in any part be of less area than that of the "communication pipe" itself, which pipe shall not be of less than a half-inch bore in all its course.

29. All lead "warning pipes" and other lead pipes of which the ends are open, so that such pipes cannot remain charged with water, may be of the following minimum weights, that is to say:

Weight of lead pipes having open ends.

Definition of

tion pipe."

30. In these regulations the term "communication pipe" shall mean the pipe which extends from the district pipe or other supply pipe of the "communicacompany up to the "stop valve" prescribed in the Regulation No. 12.