_Or, The Valiant Knight of the Watering Pot, and the Laidly Dragon of
London._
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["The Report of the Royal Commission appointed for the purpose
of ascertaining whether the sources available within the
watersheds of the Thames and Lea are adequate in quantity and
quality for the water supply of the metropolis, has been laid
upon the table of the House of Commons.... The Commissioners
are convinced that much filth of various kinds is discharged
unnecessarily and illegally into the rivers.... They insist
upon the necessity for frequent inspection by an authority
appointed for the purpose.... The treatment of the water
after abstraction from the river is a subject to which the
Commissioners have devoted a good deal of attention ... they
suggest that regulations should be drawn up after competent
inquiry, and strictly enforced, the enforcement being
entrusted to a Public Water Examiner, who should have the
legal right of entry to all the waterworks."--_The Times._]