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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    I do not think that a satisfactory opinion could be given on a smaller quantity than half-a-gallon, i. e. a Win- chester quart of each sample. Be so good as to state explicitly in writing, the ques- tion or questions to he solved by the investigation. The sample or samples should be addressed to me at the Chemi- cal Laboratory, Guy’s Hospital. I am, Gentlemen, yours faithfully, ALFRED S. TAYLOR. Dr. W. A. Greenhill, and J. Penhall, Esq, No. 19. Letter from the Town Clerh of Hastings to the Secretaries of the East-Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society. (Answer to No. 11. J Hastings Local Board of Health, Town Clerk’s Office, 24th Jan., 1859. Gentlemen, The Local Board of Health have, in accord- ance with the wish contained in your letter dated the 6th inst., applied to Dr. Garrett (he being the informant,) for a precise specification of each contaminated cistern where cases of sickness have arisen within his knowledge from lead-poisoning, in order that the Local Board might pro- cure from each of such cisterns a specimen of the water in such a state as it is actually used. The Local Board have received a reply from Dr. Garrett wherein he declines to give the required informa- tion,* consequently the Board will be unable to comply with your request on that point; but the Board do not wish the matter to drop, but, on the contrary, to have the water, supplied by the Board, analyzed, as stated in my previous letter to you.f The Manager of the Waterworks • [riz. the letter, marked No. 13.] f [viz. the letter, marked No. 10.]