Mr. Deacon, a Liverpool engineer, has, it is- said, invented
a machine called a Waste-water Meter, which will enable any Water Company to keep up a constant service. The objection to that scheme hitherto has been waste, which in Liverpool was so great that the town was compelled to abandon the constant-service system, after giving it a fair trial. Mr. Deacon's meter, as described in a paper read by Mr. F. J. Bramwell to the British Association, enables the inspectors, without entering the houses, to tell at once whether water has been set running, and- the houses where this is found to be the case are next day visited by the officers of the Company. The result is that an incessant inspection can be kept up without worrying people who use the water properly, and that constant service can be maintained with less waste than under the intermittent system. In Norwich it has been found that with supervision the waste from constant service is only half the waste from intermittent service, but supervision without Mr. Deacon's invention coats in a large city more than the Companies can afford.
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