Report ... on the supply of water to the Metropolis.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report ... on the supply of water to the Metropolis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pag« Superior salubrity of soft water : well-waters dangerous in towns . . 52, 53 Improvements in public health recently effected by changes from hard to soft water supplies . . . . . . . . • 54, 55 Comparative effects of hard and soft water supplies on the animal economy ........... 56, 57 Fallacious opinion as to the superior fitness of Thames water for long voyages ........... 58, 59 Effects of soft water on lead, due to bad distribution: superiority of earthenware or iron pipes for all waters . . . . . 60, 61 Circumstances under which injuries from lead introduced, and means of prevention .......... 62, 63 Superiority of soft water for cooking meats and vegetables . . .64, 65 Ditto for making tea. and for all infusions . . 66, 67 Savings in the quantities of tea practicable by the use of soft water . 68, 69 Superiority of soft water for washing clothes: expense of washing in the metropolis . . . . . . . . . .70, 71 Estimate of the present expense of washing linen in the metropolis . 72, 73 Aggregate expenses of washing in the metropolis . . . . 74,75 Estimate of the saving of soap from the use of soft water instead of hard water ........... 76, / 7 Practical experience of the reduced expense of washing with soft water • 78, 79 Expense of dirt from soot and street dust ...... 80 Qualities desirable in a water supply for towns ..... 8l Abandonment of the Thames and hard water supplies recommended . 82, 83 Course of search for improved supplies: superiority of surface-water or shallow drainage-water . . . . . . . . 84, 85 Filtration of surface-waters by land drainage . . . . . 86, 87 Chemical researches into the capabilities of different soils to act as filters 88, 89 Superiority of land drainage waters to river waters ... 90 Examination of gathering-grounds ....... 91 Examination of the water derived from Richmond Park, as compared with Thames water . . . . . , . . . 92, 93 Quantities of water derivable from given areas of land . . .94, 95 Examination of the Bagshot and other sands in Surrey as gathering- grounds ....... ... 96, 97 Geological characteristics of the Surrey sands . • . ♦ . 98, 99 Geological examination of the Surrey sands as gathering grounds . . 100, 101 Chemical examinations of the qualities of the ivater derivable from the Surrey sands 102, 103 Comparison of the soft water supplies derivable from the Surrey sands with other soft w'ater supplies » . . . . . . 104, 105 Chemical examinations of the surface waters derived from the Surrey sands 106, 107 Culinary examination of the soft water supplies from the sands . . 108,109 Popular trials and appreciation of soft water supplies similar to those from Surrey 110, 111 Proposed adoption for the metropolis of soft water supplies from silicious sands 112,113 Advantages to the land from the removal of the surface water . . 114, 115 Quantities of water derivable from gathering-grounds commensurate with the wants of the metropolis . . . . . . .116,117 Quantities of water stated to be requisite for the supply of the metropolis 118, 119 Trial works to ascertain the quantities of water actually consumed . 120, 121