Three reports relating to the Hastings water : with an appendix of letters, &c. / Ordered to be printed by the Hastings Local Board of Health.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Three reports relating to the Hastings water : with an appendix of letters, &c. / Ordered to be printed by the Hastings Local Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    No. 14. Circular issued hy the Committee of the East-Sussex Me- dico-Chirurgical Society to each Member of the Society ^practising within the Borough, with the Answers received. Hastings, Jan. 13, 1859. Dear Sir, A question as to the contamination, by lead, gf the water supplied to the inhabitants of the Borough having been referred hy the Local Board of Health to our Medico-Chirurgical Society, we beg to forward to you (as well as to the other Members,) the subjoined question, and shall he much obliged if you will send an answer at your earhest convenience. We are, dear Sir, yours faithfully. W. A. GREENHILL,) JOHN PENHALL, J Secretaries. Question.—“ What number of cases of sickness caused hy the drinking of water contaminated by lead have you met with in your own practice during the past two years ? Answers to the above Question. None Not one Not one, during eleven years I have been in practice in the Borough of Hastings. Not any None. I don’t think that this question fully meets the case. Certainly not one. None. .. Charles A. Adey. John Wyatt Barnard. Peyton Blakiston, M.D. Cant.; F.R.S.; Fellow of the College of Physicians. Roger Duke. D. Hoadley Garb. R. Cooper Gardiner. W. A. Greenhill. * [Some of the Town Members of the Society have not been resident in the Borough for two years, but they were all resident when the alleged cases of lead-poisoning took place.]