Water analysis.

Date:
[1877]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Water analysis. 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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    WATER ANALYSIS. fReprintedfrom the “ Perthshire Constitutional & Journal, Monday, January 8, 1877). One of the man} facts brought out, incident- ally, in the course of the various public and pri- vate discussions that have taken place in Perth, during the bygone year, concerning Water- supply, is this : that many chemical analyses of waters have been obtained by public bodies or private persons for their own satisfaction : which analyses have not been made public. These parties having borne all the costs, and taken all the trouble, of procuring the said analyses, have, of course, a perfect right to keep the results to themselves. But, on the one hand, we can see great public advantage from giving such results publicity; while, on the other, we cannot see any good ground for withholding such publicity. There cannot be too great a multiplication of such analyses at a time when so vivid and general an interest is taken in the important question of extended Water-supply. The collection, tabula- tion, and comparison of all the analyses—made recently, or during the last forty years—of the water used in and around Perth for domestic purposes, could not fail to produce results highly instructive and suggestive. Such a comparison would enable us, for instance, to estimate the value of chemical in relation to other kinds of evidence, as regards the bearing of Water-supply on public health. We should see— <?E2.0'7/+-