Report of the State board of health of Massachusetts on water-supply and sewerage : under the provisions of chapter 274, of the acts of 1886.

  • Massachusetts. Department of Public Health.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Report of the State board of health of Massachusetts on water-supply and sewerage : under the provisions of chapter 274, of the acts of 1886. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    WATER SUPPLY AISTD SEWERAGE. Report of the State Board of Health required by Section 1 OF Chapter 274 of the Acts of 1886. The work of the State Board of Health under .the '' Act to protect the purity of inhind waters, and under the appropriation of $30,000 made by the last General Court, may be divided into three departments : — I. That of advising cities, towns, corporations and individuals in regard to the most appropriate source of supply for their drinking waters and the best method of assuring the purity thereof and of disposing of their sew- age. II. Obtaining information in regard to all of the existing sources of domestic water supplies in the State, and sub- jecting samples from each source to chemical analysis once a month, and to biological examination Avhen necessary, and in makino- such chemical examinations of other inland waters as the general purposes of the Act require. III. Collecting information in regard to experiments that have hitherto been made upon the purification of sewage by applying it to land, and arranging for and conducting such additional experiments upon such purification as are necessary to obtain knowledge required for immediate use within the State. I. In the first department there have been twenty-five appli- cations* from the following cities, towns and individuals for advice or official action by the Board. Of these, eleven were in regard to water supplies, as follows : Boston, Chel- sea, Somcrville and Everett; Bradford, Randolph and * Blank forms of application for advice under the provisions of chaffter 274 of the Acts of 1886 have been prepared for the use of cities, towns and others, and may- be i.rociued at the office of the Board at 13 Beacon Street, Boston.