This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...cost of the distribution system would thereby have been greatly increased; the limited amount that the municipality could afford being 3 lacs of rupees. The pipes were all cast in green sand; the joints throughout are plain spigot-and-socket, and run with lead. The pipes were obtained, through Messrs. Richardson and Cruddas, of Bombay, from Messrs. Stewart and Co., of Glasgow, and were certified at the time of delivery to have been tested up to 300 feet head. The least effective head in the civil station is on the "Eidge," where it averages 13 feet, but elsewhere it averages 35 feet. The average effective head in the city is 24 feet. The total length of pipes laid in the highlevel extension is 13 miles, and the weight is 632 tons. The maximum pressure is 134 feet, or 58 lbs. per square inch. The total weight of pipes laid in the civil station is 419 tons, and in the city is 213 tons; total, 632 tons. The pipe-lines are, as far as possible, divided into complete circuits, with sluice-valves at each junction, and scour-valves wherever suitable places occur. Ball-hydrants are placed at intervals along the lines, for purposes of fire-service, road-watering and the discharge of air; the stand-posts for these fit 2£-inch hose connections. Throughout all the native bazaars and the city, public drinking-fountains have been erected; these are of the self-closing type known as "Kennedy"s Patent," in which the valve is opened by raising a weight attached to a horizontal spindle. A masonry platform and proper drainage-channels are provided round each standard. There are at present seventyseven of these drinking-fountains erected over the high-level area; sixty of them are in the city and seventeen in the civil-station bazaars. The houses of the...