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be

experienced

again for many years

few hundred gallons.

0. In

many

to come and that

by

the provision

of

the

bye - pass

the

appearance of

the water will be so

improved as to

satisfy all reasonable requirements.

10.

By simple filtration

neither the Pokfulam

nor Faitam

nov

waters can be rendered as

bright

the

we should like to see them.

By

adoption of the album process they

can be rendered perfectly

at all seasons of the

bright

Rod

clear and

year. On

a small scale the process has been

in continuous operation at the Civil

Aospital

during

the last seven years.

to be desired

The results leave nothing in respect of either the appearance or composition of the water. There are however considerations which affect.

A

public supply of upwards of three

million

a

gallons day

private source

apply to a

which do not

of only a

Jew

communities there is a marked)

prejudice in favour of well waters and in this Colony

wve

have

· good

reason to believe that still some

householders have recourse to shallow

wells in preference to the public - supply.

In 1887

the

majority of the water's from wells in the city of Victoria

were returned as

evidently much

any

.

improvement

" wolluted " when examined in the Government Laboratory. It is highly improbable that has taken place since.. "This prejudice would, we fear, not be removed but in reality augmented if the public supply ale treatment before filtration although the objections to such treatment are,

water

efor

in our

11.

were submitted to chanical

-opinion purely sentimental. In view of the favovable

results obtained in the analysis of the

Pokfulam