250

at a cost of £1.6.7 per head. The Table gives the particulars of Towns in which the population supplied

or the gallons per head bears some comparison with Hongkong.

Costs of Water Works.

Name

Population Gallons

of Town.

bost of

bost

supplied.

per head per day.

pex

Works.

head.

3.

Ashtow under? 130,000

Lyne.

23.08

640,556

4·927

Dundee..

167,000 40.30

751,815

4.502

Preston-

100,000 31.00

332,000

3.320

Halifax.

Huddersfield

141,212

118,065 25.41

Blackburn. 105,000 21.43 622,769 5.931

21.74

647,166

4.583

750,000

6.352

and

Weardale and 150,000

13.10

592,959 3.953

Shildon.

Rochdale

106,834 Manchester 900,000 21 11

13.10

798,698 7.476

3,397,215 3.775

Liverpool...

Bradford.

717,019 364,000 24-181,869,737

22.31 2,854,099

3.981

5.137

Leeds..

Sheffield

334,354 23.92 1,463,133

4.376

300,000 16.19 1,693,000

5.643

Oldham

bardiff

179,000

88,984 24.72

22.35

585,706 3.272

322,327

3.622

Heywood:

44,770 20 10

297,558

6.646

Of

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