The Surveyor and municipal engineer . nted out that at Bristol and Halifax much moresevere gradients are being constantly ti-avei-sed byelectric cars. Stratfords Polluted River. In our last issue we gave a briefreport of a Local GovernmentBoard inquiry which was heldlast week respecting complaintslodged by the inhabitants of Sti-atford as to thepolluted state of the Channelsea river, which com-municates with the Lea. Among other things itwas alleged that an outbreak of diphtheria inStratford had resulted from the pollution. As thebrevity of the report may create an incon-ect im-pression, we pr
The Surveyor and municipal engineer . nted out that at Bristol and Halifax much moresevere gradients are being constantly ti-avei-sed byelectric cars. Stratfords Polluted River. In our last issue we gave a briefreport of a Local GovernmentBoard inquiry which was heldlast week respecting complaintslodged by the inhabitants of Sti-atford as to thepolluted state of the Channelsea river, which com-municates with the Lea. Among other things itwas alleged that an outbreak of diphtheria inStratford had resulted from the pollution. As thebrevity of the report may create an incon-ect im-pression, we print in another column a report onthe subject recently jiresented by the borough en-gineer of West Ham. Mr. Lewis Angell. Thereseems to be no evidence that the cases of diphtheriaare attributable to the state of the river, and thegeneral health of the district is continuously verygood. Cases of di])htheria occur in other parts ofthe district. 416 THE SURVEYOR AND MUNICIPAL [skptkmber 30,1898. MIDLAND DISTRICT MEETING AT BILSTON.— BiLSTON : View of Wellington-road. We now conclude onr report of this meeting. It will beremembered that before giving an account of the visita andother functions we reproduced Mr. Wilsons long and valuablepaper, but were compelled to hold over the latter part, whichdealt exclusively with the waterworks. This concluding partof the paper is as follows :— SEVEN YEARS IN A BLACK COUNTRY TOWN (continiiedj, By C. L. N. Wilson, WATERWORKS. Under the 1850 Act the coramiasioneiB obtained powers toconstruct waterworks and to supply the town with water,and they commenced to pump water from the mines by theSandy gay engine direct into the water mains, but, asmight have been expected, this did not prove the same time that our Act was obtained the Wolver-hampton Waterworks Company was established, and tookpower to supply Eilston, and then, in a few years after, theSouth Staffordshire Waterworks Company also took power tos
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