Our daily water supply / by C.E. Parker-Rhodes.

  • Parker-Rhodes, C. E. (Charles E.)
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Our daily water supply / by C.E. Parker-Rhodes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PART I. PAGE Bodily ailments frustrating life enjoyment ... ... i ^ Filter-beds conducing to ill-health 2 \ Surfacejvvater unwholesome ... ... ... ... ^ Mineral waters injurious ... ... / ... ... ... 3 Renewal of the human frame ... ... 4 Complaints of all classes of both sexes ... ... ... 4 Fretful infant ... ... ... ... 4 Hard Water—action on the body ... ... 5 baths, laundry, and house utensils cleaned with II ,, in the preparation of food.., 12 for our beverages ... 12 ,, for laundry work 13 „ for textile manufactures ... ... ... 14 the infant's and the child's ablutions in... 14 „ on the skin ,. 15 M conduces to blood poisoning ... ,;. 16 ,) soap used in common for linen ... ... 17 „ cause of epidemics... 17 >> soap used in common for the body in ... 18 Royal Commissions 24 Lords' Committees 24 House of Commons—Select Committees 24 As to Hard Water 24 Supply of the Metropolis with spring and deep well water 28 The softening of water by lime 28 Professor Clark's process adopted 29, 40 Softening of hard water 33