[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Isle of Wight) Urban Sanitary District.

  • Newport (Isle of Wight, England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Isle of Wight) Urban Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ample it undoubtedly is, as I am informed the quantity far exceds the Engineer’s expectations, the yield at the present time being three times as much as the town requires, and thus enables you to give that great desideratum—a constant instead of an intermittent supply. Pure it is proved to be as shown by the analysis, both chemical and bacterioscopic, recently made by Sir E. Frankland, which proves the water to be in every way quite equal, if not superior, to the old. A copy of the analysis I append. (Copy.) Water Analysis Laboratory, The Yews, Reigate, 12th December, 1898. The Mayor and Corporation of Newport, I.W. Gentlemen, NEWPORT WATER. In accordance with your instructions I sent down my chief assistant to collect samples of water from your new well on the 4tli of November last and again on the 6th inst. The samples collected on the 4th of November were sub¬ mitted to complete chemical analysis, and those taken on the same date from the adits at the bottom of the well were bacterioscopically examined ; but as no satisfactory sample for bacterioscopic examination could then be taken from the delivery main in Carisbrooke, my assistant paid a second visit on the 6th inst. I enclose the result of analysis, and have now to report as follows :—
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