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

  • Hastings (England). Local Board of Health.
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.

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    You say that “ he,” the analyst, “ has been unable to discover any amount of lead.”* He therefore clearly discovered some lead, and confirms Dr. Thomson’s and my own analysis. I, for one, regardless of the odium which may be showered upon me, will defend the public from lead-poison¬ ing, and fearlessly stand ill the foreranks of those who study the public health and the general welfare of our visitors and the inhabitants. Had the Corporation conferred with me, instead of appealing to the Medical Society for information which. I alone could give, I would have joined heart and soul in the investigation and eradication of the evil. If the Water Committee is desirous that the invalids who resort to this place for health, should drink out of leaden tanks, be it so. I have entirely washed my hands of the whole subject. As you are going to print my correspondence, I. shall be glad to see a proof sheet. I trust this letter may be added to it. Yours truly, C. B. GARRETT. I must beg of you to excuse my haste in writing this- Robert Growse, Esq. No. 26. Letter from the Secretaries of the East-Sussex Medico- Chirurgical Society to the Town Clerk of Hastings. Hastings, Feb. 19, 1859. Dear Sir, In reference to Dr. Garrett’s answer to your letter of 17th inst. communicated to us yesterday, we find no allusion to the principal subject of that letter, viz., the request that he will furnish you with the source from which he obtained the samples of water submitted by him to * [See note to p. 29.]