Report of the Medical commission upon the sanitary qualities of the Sudbury, Mystic, Shawshine, and Charles River waters.

  • Boston (Mass.). Medical Commission on Sanitary Qualities of the River Waters.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Report of the Medical commission upon the sanitary qualities of the Sudbury, Mystic, Shawshine, and Charles River waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    sity of the population in the Sudbury-river valley, and its probable future increase, being only of interest as affording a means of comparing this river with the other three, will be given in the third part of this report, which is devoted to a comparison of the four drainage areas under consideration. Chemical Composition. — The worst portions of this river, as shown by the following series of analyses (Table I), are Whitehall pond, below a wool factory in Cordaville, above and below Ashland, and Angle brook just below Marlboro'. TABLE I. —Sudbury River—[Parts per JOO,000.] Sept. 24 24 25 25 25 24 5 5 2 Oct. Locality. Whitehall pond Cold Spring brook (Basin No. IV.) . Angle brook below Marlboro' ... Angle brook at Dam No. VII. . . . Stony brook at Dam JSTo. III. . . . , Sudbury river at Cordaville * . . . . Sudbury river above Ashland . . . , Sudbury river below Ashland . . . , Sudbury river2 ft 0.0106 0.0052 0.0016 0.0010 0.0010 0.0090 0.0020 0.0034 0.0016 O e8 .S'S as 0.0248 0.0150 0.0104 0.0090 0.0190 0.0270 0.0310 0.0360 0.0290 2.0 3.8 T.6 4.6 3.8 3.6 4.2 4.8 3.6 2.6 1.8 5.4 2.4 3.0 3.8 1.8 3.4 3.8 4.6 5.6 13.0 7.0 6.8 7.4 6.0 8.2 7.4 O 0.30 0.50 2.70 0.70 0.50 0.45 0.80 1.20 0.80 1 Sample taken just below the wool factory. 2 Exact locality unknown. Collected by Mr. Fteley for experiments on storage. Whitehall pond is a shallow pond, which contains a large amount of vegetable matter partially in a state of decomposi- tion, so that a large amount of both the free and albumi- noid ammonia was detected in its water. The water from below the wool factory at Cordaville was collected at our request, for the purpose of observing the effect of the factory upon the water. At the time of our visit
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