another column we print the analysis made by Messrs. Llewellyn & Ov. of the fillered water supplied to the commanity of Shanghai by the Shanghai Waterworks Company, and as the analysis was made with the almost care the results proved that the Company supplies water of remarkable purity, which will bear most favourable comparison with the water supplied to any city of Europe.
In 1842 this settlement was founded upon rice and cotton fields, intersected by countless tidal creeks and ditches. The ground on which the foreign settlement is built is an allavinl deposit of no great age, and, in consequence of the water drawn from wells being not only unwholesome but offensive to sight and smell, the foreign residents, who year by year iucrenso in nambers, have hind, until the waterworks were completed, to depend for household use, drinking and cooking, upon river water taken from the river bank and then cleared by num, As the foreign com. ni unity increased in numbers, and the river shore became more and more polluted by focal taint, discuses grow Amongst us, and for the last twenty yours typhoid and allied maladies have never been absent from this place. Now it may be safely suid that in nearly every case the diseases have come through corrupted water. Shanghai, owing to the number and intensity of typhoid attacks, us got a bad name us an unhenithy residence and it must be admitted that the virulent discuses of the place are of a severe and dangerous type, and that the average of recovery is not a large one. We may now with con. fidence expect to seo an amendment, and trast Uhat in fature years the model Settlement will become distin. guished by itssalabrity. The improroment, which should come quickly, will be brought about by the abundant supply of absolutely pure water now given to us by the Shanghai Wat works Company, and, if the supply extended freely to the Chinese popula. tion, we may expect an immanity from the frequent and dandly epidemics that hitherto too often have swept through the quarters inhabited by natives. Other advantages have been bestowed upon us. The waters are always under pressure, and by the hydrants now fixed in numerous parts of the settle. ment at short distances from each other, and so arranged as to be always accessible and available, a flood of water oan be poured upon burning houses so that, in ature, the scope of conflagratious will be circumscribed so much that-property will become comparatively sife, The fire brigade can now ensily deal with burning houses, and the fire oan be suppressed by overwhelming atreamsof water so that entire blocks will not, as heretofore, be endangered. The isks of fire insurance having been sensibly reduced, there will be no longer any excuse for ihe extortionate rates of premium now charged by the fire i surance otices. There is now no justification for the excessive charges that are made. Another matter may. be referred to, It is well known thnt after a time water acts apon lead pipes, and that, as a consequence, the minute quantities of lend held in solation have a perceptibly evil influence upon health, Many disensos of the stomach and blood are now known to be the results of drinking water that as been poisoned by lend. The softer the water the greater is the solvent power apon the metal, and as Shanghai river-water is of peculiar softness it was necessary to guard against the eroding ction upon london pip Me. Hart, the Engineer of the Shan, Lai Waterworks' Company, took his precautions accordingly, and all the water brought into houses of this settlement passes through patent tin-lined The precaution has cost foreign community of this place has been thus effectually guarded against all possibility of contamination of the water by poisonous lead partic!
Provision las been also made for the fatureexpansion of Shanghai, and when the population of the foreign settlement inerenses, as it will do when cotton, paper, glass, and machine works are founded on a large scale, the Water-works without any material largement of the tanks, filtering bods, or conduits, will be adequate to meet all demand: We can confidently say that th works, which are the first and, so far, only ones in the Chinese Empire, are equal in design, oxcoution, and general excellence to the best work of the kind in Europe, and the foreign community of Shanghai desorro congratulations upon the successful completion of a now, useful, and enduring enterprise, by means of which Ube comfort and health of the Settlement will be promoted, useful manufactures which require abundant supplies of pure water will be encouraged, and the dangers of fire, ton groat extent, be suppressed.
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