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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    Medical Society in this Borough to a subject which has lately been brought before the Privy Council by a medical gentleman residing in Hastings, A letter has been written stating that in many houses in Hastings cases of illness have arisen in consequence of the injurious effect produced upon the water by leaden tanks being used. The President of the Privy Council has written to the Local Board upon the subject, and has requested a report thereon, w^hich the Board intend making ; but before they do so, they would much like to have the subject dis- cussed by those medical gentlemen who belong to the Medical Society, and that they will take such steps as they think necessary to test the water, and ascertain whether or not the leaden tanks produce such an effect upon the water as to be injurious to health. I shall be happy to furnish you with any further in- formation you may require. I remain, yours faithfully, ROBERT GROWSE. John Penhall, Esq. No. 11. Letter from the Secretaries of the East-Sussex Medieo- Chirurgical Society to the Mayor of Hastings. (Answer to the preceding.) Hastings, Jan. 6, 1859 Sir, We are instructed by the Committee of the East-Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society to inform, you that the Town Clerk’s letter on the subject of the quality of the water supplied to the inhabitants of the Borough, was laid before the Members of the Society at their Annual General Meeting, held on the 4th instant ; and that it shall imme- diately receive from the Society all the attention which the importance of the subject demands. The matter was discussed at some length last Tuesday ; but, as the Mem-