On the contamination of the Water of Leith by the sewage of Edinburgh and Leith / by Stevenson Macadam.

Date:
[1865?]
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Credit: On the contamination of the Water of Leith by the sewage of Edinburgh and Leith / by Stevenson Macadam. 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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    Table 0. Sedimentary Mutters collected from tlie Bed of the Water of Leitli, and from the Bottom of the Edinburgh Lade. Dried at 212° Fahr. Temperature. Place and Pcr-centage compositiou. Air. js jiidimcnt. Time of Collection. ( Organic matter. Earthy matter. Total. Nitrogen. FnliT. 41° ei° 64° Fahr. 43° 42° . 61° 61° Bod of Water of Leitli. Underneath dam below Water of) Lcith Village, collected on 23d > March 1861 at 2.10 p.m. - -) From dam below AVater of Leith') Villaa;e, colleotod on 2d April 1861 /■ at loUo a.m. - - . From dam below Water of Leitn j Yillase, collected on 20th May 1801 > at 1.32 p.m. - ■ „ T , '< Below Deau Bridge, collected on] 20th May 1864 at 1.40 p.m. - i 82*12 35-32 39-32 17-88 64-68 61-28 00-63 100-00^ ] loo-oo; 100-00 100-00 2-01 1-13 1-31 Average of 4 samples 48-12 51-88 100-00 1-63 44° G4° 42° 61° Behind Ainslic and Moray Place,) collected on 2d April 18'j4 at 11.25 > a.m. - - - ™ -^ Behind Ainslie and Moray Place,) collected on 20th May 1804 at 2 p.m. - . - - 49-72 40-12 50-28 59-88 l00-oo■^ ioo-oo3 0-98 Average of 2 samples 41-92 55-08 100-00 0-98 43° S0° 48° 48° 48° 45° 43 4^1° 43° 46° 44° 45° 45° 40° 41° 45° Sodiment lying in bed of Water of^ Leitli, 4 to f yards below North ( Sewer at Stockbridge, collected on C 18th March 1861 at 12.53 p.m. -J Sediment lying in bed of Water of) Leith, 4 to 6 y.ards below INorth ( Sewer at Stock bridge, collected on ( 19th March at 11.40 a.m. - - J Sediment lying in bed of V\ atcr of) Leith, 4 to 0 vards below Ivorth ( Sower at Stockbridge, collected on f 21i;t March 1801 at 5.20 p.m. -J Sediment lying in bed of Water of) Leitli, 4 to 0 yards below isorth C Sewer at Stockbridge, collected on f 2->d March 1S61 at 4.35 p.m. -J Sediment lying in bed of AVater of) LeiUi, below South Sewer at btocl<- ( bridae, collected on 22d March! 18G1 at 4.45 p.m. - . '{ Sediment lying in bed of \\ater of) Lcith, below North and Sontli ( c.Mrni.o ^t-nf'khrid'0. collected C on 23d March ISOl at 3■■f>Y>M- ■{ Sediment lying in bed ofA^ater ol) Lcith below North and South f Sewers at Stockbridge, collected I on 1st April ISfil at '-i. l'P;l; •( Sediment lying in bed ol Water of) Leith below North and boiitlW Sewers at Stockbridge, coUcetctt i on 2d April 18C1 at 11.45 a.m. -J Average of 8 samples Sides of narrowed ehnnnel of VVater of Leith at Slociairidge below i sewers, collected on 2()th Jlay ISj-t \ 41-52 23-92 48-32 66-52 37-12 28-56 51-56 48-80 58-48 76-08 51-08 33-48 «2-S8 71-44 45-44 51-20 100-00^ 100-00 100-00 100-00 100-00 1 100-00 1 1 100-00 100-00, 1-U 4-'>'67 50-33 100-00 1-1* «i° 61° 34-52 63-48 100-00 0-50 at 2.10 p.m. - - - 02° 02' 59° D0° Einhtv yards below SlockbridgC collected on 25th Jlny 1S!1 at 2.55 p.m. - BchinU Malta T(M-race, oollcctcd on 2oth May 1861 at 5.30 p.m. ■ 2512 32-52 74-88 67-48 100-00- 100-00 1 ' 1-OS