Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, J.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Nee) faithful and frightful picture—of the condition of the water of the Thames, as supplied by the Companies to their customers. That the Commissioners, with these facts before them, should terminate their labours without taking into consideration the best mode of removing so crying an evil, was next to im- possible. Prevented, however, by the limits assigned to their inquiry, from looking abroad for a purer source, they naturally turned their attention to the improvement of the supply at home; and the result of their labours is the recommendation of a general system of filtra- tion—a system, not limited to the 53,000 fa- milies daily drinking the filthy fluid of which we have been speaking, but extending itself to the 176,000 tenants of the New River and other Companies, consuming the 29,000,000 of gallons daily supplied to the metropolis. ‘ Al- though,” say they, ‘‘ the New River water is not open to the same objectionable impregna- tions as that of the Thames, it receives the drainage of a large extent of country, is oc- casionally very muddy, and is susceptible of much improvement by filtration.” In justice to the inventor and proprietor of every thing calculated to benefit society, we A 2) B od