§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHY (for Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR)asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether his attention has been called to the notice recently issued by the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, requiring householders to put additional values, covers, guard hoses, &c., in their houses; and, whether those additions will not cause heavy outlay to the householders of the Metropolis, while, at the same time, preventing them from clearing out their cisterns or flushing the drains so easily as they can do under the present system?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLSir, the Board have obtained a copy of the notice which has been issued by the Grand 1148 Junction Waterworks Company. The Company, in view of a continuous water supply, have required that each supply-pipe shall have a screw-down stop-valve, and that the valve, if fixed underground, shall have a proper cover and guard box—not guard hose. These fittings are essential under a system of constant supply, which the Board desires to see adopted generally; and the requirements of the notice are in strict accordance with the regulations made under the Metropolis Water Act, 1871. The valve, &c., cannot, as it appears to the Board, in any way prevent the cleaning out of cisterns and the flushing of drains, and the expense of providing them is but small.