The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-15 00:00:00

THE TOWN WATER.

At a meeting of the Hoard of Health on Tuesday,
there being present Mr. B. Chandler (in the chair),
Messrs. Tancock, Whittle, Welsf..rd, Nutt, E. B.
Dighy, Ruegg, Dalwood. Seyn 1111 l r, Penny, and
Stoke., the question of the impure water was brantt
forward, and provoked a protracted discussion. A
sample of the water was, a few weeks back, sub-
mitted to Professor Attfield, of London, for analysis,
and his reply was in effect that it was perfectly pure,
and not injurious to health. There WS. a slight smell
emanatin,,d fnsm the water, but this, the Professor
contended, was not to be taken as evidence of its
impurity; and this would go awsy SS soon as the
water wan exposed to the air. Since the Professor's
reply, and analysis appended, have been published,
numerous complaints have been made of the impure
condition of, and the obnoxious onell arising from
the water and an individual, under the nom de plume
of "Free Lance," has written a letter to a con-
temporary giving minute particulars of an analysis
which, he stated, he made of water that came from
the tap in his back-kitchen.
Them in the letter as read,-
17. Humbug-place, Sharborne. !7th April.
The sample of water which I this morning drew from
my bark-kitchen tap is. like all previous samples, of
horribly bad quality, and totally unfit for drinking pur-
The "strong smell" (Minh", male). of which there
Men so much complaint, was plainiv discernible some
yards off from the mouth of the jug, but most surface
water not unf rei uently has a strong (putrid) smell, which
is highly injurious, and which becomes all the worse if
the water is exposed for a short time to the stein cisterns
or other open vessels.

FREE LAircF—
A *Wylie of looter drawn P.m ttgq back rit,he tap is
Sherborne, on the rth April, 1877.
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One jug of it contains the following number of ounces
and decimal parts of ounces of the resspective nub-
stances :
Total of solid filth dried in a saucepan or
kettle on the fire
Freestone, together with other gritty
matter, containing 10 per cent, of dirt 0.03
All aorta of nasty matter, containing 10
ver cent, of fever ... ... 0.01
Pure spring water ... . . ... None
Real dirt, containing 17 per cent of sewage A good
(lump
Pea-sono, containing 00 per cent, of muck 2.1
Putridity, getting bad by degrees awl
beautifully worse; found at the button,
of the kettle after boiling ..
S.
lJnaffected by ebullition, and therefore
Total beastliness

FIIEE L.sce.
NB—The scrapings of the kettles and saucepans in
which the water is boiled should In carefully saved, as it
has been found upon experiment to be a first-rate manure,
and far superior to guano.
Upon that there arose a cmsiderable amount of
talk. The Chairtnan plaintively remarked that a
lady' school had been deprived of a couple of scholars
in consequence, and he believed they would be unani-
mous in petitioning the editor not to allow any remark
to appear in future that would be likely to damage the
town. The feelings of the Board were, however,
Porsievrhat relieved by the Rev. 0. Tancock's assertion
that the lady who kept the school had not lost her
scholars. Then Mr. Ruegg unkindly asked the Chair- ---
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man if he had not been obliged to buy a filter, and •
be pleaded guilty to the self-impeachment. Several "Oh days that fled I know not how
Members, including Dr. Nutt, spoke in very distress- halcyon days of intoxicating pleasure, why did you
tog terms of disparagement of the water. in the end ever come to an end' Why has capricious Fashion
It was agreed to try an experiment recommended by decreed that Araminta and Angelina shall for the
the Surveyor, in one of the streets to begin with. The future hang up their skates, to rust unused upon the
Chairman made matters comfortable by stating he had nails of the deserted castor-house—they who skated
been told of one Board of Health that tried a similar and pirouetted 60 beautifully, and whose double-
esperigesnt and got an impediment in their pipes which shuffle, backward, outside-edge. was the admiration of
It oat them £2,000 to get out, all beholders '—Abridged from tat World.
The CHAIMIA* announeed that at a meeting of the I . _ - -
Ifire Committee for further considering the subject of Thousands are unable to take Cocoa because the
the re-organization et the Fire Brigade, they recruit- varieties commonly sold are mixed with Starch, under
mended that the new brigade should consist of one he plea of rendering them soluble; while really making.
them thick teary, and iodipeatair. This may be molly
captain and Pi subordinates, who shall be clothed in deteeted, rairi,na ' p it pro ttis
uniform, with helmets; also that the existing fire addition of Karat. CADBURY'S C:.;.% Essence o,
nee ,ninne •
brigade be dimeharged, and that the servings of Kamm, it is therefore three times the strength of these Comm
(keen, Trask, Punier, and Dibedall tee be ensineee) sad a retreehing Berenbee like Tee Or Urge.

et deep enough to do duty in the future for an old
wound. -
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