A medico-topographical account of Jeypore : based on the experience of twenty years' service as Residency Surgeon and thirteen as Superintendent of Dispensaries at Jeypore, Rajputana / by T. Holbein Hendley.

  • Thomas Holbein Hendley
Date:
1895
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Credit: A medico-topographical account of Jeypore : based on the experience of twenty years' service as Residency Surgeon and thirteen as Superintendent of Dispensaries at Jeypore, Rajputana / by T. Holbein Hendley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nuisonry duct, and from December 1875 by pipes, to the City. All objections to the water except those of the most conservative inhabitants, were met by the approval, in the first place of a committee of priests, pundits, &c., appointed by the Maharaja, and in the end, by the self-interest and convenience of the people. The supply thus obtained proving insufficient. Captain (now Colonel) Jacob, CLE., the Engmeer Of the State, proposed and carried out a scheme by which a broad earthen mound was thrown across the river about 500 feet above the pumping station. As this />aml or embankment was constructed cif the same materials as the banks of the stream, and was incorporated with them, and stones were first thrown into the bed of the river before the earthwork was commenced, so as to admit of a reasonable amount of filtration, and as sufficient arrangements were made for overflow of water, there was little fear of a repetition of the accident which had previously occurred. The results have been excellent. A lake a couple of miles long, with a breadth at the dam of 800 feet and a maximum depth of over 34 feet at the embankment in the monsoon, and a minimum depth of 14 to 15 feet dur- iftg the past seven years, has been formed, and there is now an abundant supply of water. In 1892 the daily average consumption was 897,884 gallons or a little over s}^ gallons per dieni on the census population of 1891, viz., 158,787. Colonel Jacob estimates the total consumption, including other sources of supply, within the City at 7-58 gallons per head per diem. As there are two sets of engines with duplicates of all important parts there is little fear of failure of supply. Water is now distributed in greater or less degree to seven of the wards, and it is hoped that the remaining portions of the City will also reap the benefit ere long of a continuous and pure supply, as this is the most and indeed the only certain means of ensuring good health of the populace and especially of freedom from epidemics and particularly from cholera. The following is an analysis of the water as drawn from a stand-post in Jeypore City. In 100,000 PAUTs. Total solids in solution Lime Magnesia -Sulphuric Acid Chlorine equal to Chloride of Sodium 2'3 Hardness, Natural ... Do. after boiling 15 minutes Vtee and Albuminoid Ammonia ... Nitrates This water ^s of excellent quality, sufficiently soft for all domestic purposes, and does not con- fain more Albuminoid Ammonia than some of our best drinking waters. The next analyses will give some idea of the quality of even the best Jeypore well waters. All are taken from wells outside the town. Those within the walls are very foul. The supply from some of these wells is abundant, ^or example, although four pairs of bullocks were used continuously night and day to clean out the Residency Surgeon's garden well, it was found impossible to remove all the water. A stoppage of a quarter of an hour sufficed to raise the water l^el at once to the original amount. As regards the State generally, Mr. Moir in his report on the forests of Jeypore, also notices that the quantity of water in some of the wells is astonishing, especially along the base of the bare hills of the Lalsot range, where he observed as many as ten leather buckets at work at once at some wells v.'ithout apparently making any appreciable difference in the quantity of the water. On the other hand, I have seen a shallow well in a bad position emptied out in the case of a fire in less than an hour. 24 9- 01 1 • 66 0 .41 0 • 40 18 • 0 9 • 6 0 • 0075
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