STREET WATERING.
Watering necessary on sanitary grounds as well as to prevent
damage from dust--Watering in London--Watering by
horse and cart--The points of importance to be considered
in connection with this service--The diary of a water
cart--Bayley's hydrostatic van--A description of this
machine--Its great advantages over the old-fashioned
water cart--Mr. Scott on the subject--A trial in Edinburgh--
Mr. Tomkins and Bayley's van--A comparative
table of effective work by one of these vans--Watering
streets by ponding water in channel gutters--Brown's
system of watering--Its advantages and objections--Watering
by hose and reels or by portable iron pipes--Watering
at Reading--Watering at Paris--Use of salt
water and other chemicals--Watering with disinfectants 73