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Credit: The quality of the Perth water supply. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![tkc:e] OF THE PERTH WATER SUPPLY. (Reprinted from Perthshire Constitutional, July 31, 1876.^ At the June meeting of the Water Commis- sion—as reported in our columns of June 21st— an analysis by Dr Stevenson Macadam, of Edinburgh, of some water— presumably that of the filtering-tank at Moncreifie Island—was submitted. After considerable discussion—also reported in our columns—it was resolved to send a request to Dr Lindsay for a renewed expression of his opinion (presumably) regarding the quality of the Perth water-supply in relation to the health of the inhabitants, as that opinion might have been modified by Dr Macadam’s analysis. The request was duly made, and a reply in course received. People naturally expected that at the July meeting—as a matter of business routine and official courtesy—it would have been stated that the request had been sent, and a reply re- ceived; and it would have been expected also that as much—and the same kind of—publicity should have been given to said request and reply as to the analysis to which both referred. Strangely, however, v/hile the attention of the July meeting—as its proceedings were reported in cur issue of July 19th—was in great measure devoted to the consideration of Mr Bateman’s Report, submitted subsequently to Dr Lind- say’s, —for Mr Bateman’s is dated 12th July, Dr Lindsay’s 24th June,—the only references to the earlier Report were the Dean of Guild remarking, at the close of U 5 “LOTS](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21966965_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
