. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 6 T!!E CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [Janvart, â though ilcl'errcci for auch a lengtli of time, tlie public indignation now became ^, and at a meeting lield in April 1827. which was attended i.'V a most body of the nobility and residents of the V.'cst of London, resolutions of a very strong nature were passed, and a petition to, praying for the appointment, by the Crown, of a commission to inqnire into the present modes of supply, and
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 6 T!!E CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [Janvart, â though ilcl'errcci for auch a lengtli of time, tlie public indignation now became ^, and at a meeting lield in April 1827. which was attended i.'V a most body of the nobility and residents of the V.'cst of London, resolutions of a very strong nature were passed, and a petition to, praying for the appointment, by the Crown, of a commission to inqnire into the present modes of supply, and their ctlcct on the health of the population. In compliance with tliis urgent demand. Dr. Iloget. Mr. Brand, and Mr. Teifcrd were named on the lith July, 1827. to examine the allegations brought forward, which at once led to the suggestion of mmicrous remedies, for an evil, which no one appeared ready to controvert. Among these we tind a Mr. Hipkins proposing to convey in an open con- duit, the water of the Thames, from above Old Brentford. Dr. Kerrison. from Islewortb. and Mr. James Mills, from Teddington ; Mr. Martin, the artist, also sought to shew that the water of the river Cohie might he brought in a canal from Denham. in the neighbourhood of Uxbridge. to London : and. in addition to these, various other proposals emanated from Messrs. Smart. Brown of Chambers. Jones. William Anderson. &c. &c. None of these, however, were fully discussed by the commission, as the demand for their Report rendered it necessary that it should be given in long before they could well said to have terminated their labours. The CTidencc they obtained enabled them, however, to decide ' that the present state of the sui>ply of water requires improvement, that the com- plaints respecting the quality are well founded, and that the water ought to be derived from other sources than those now resorted ; In consequence of this report it was deemed necessary that a Select
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