The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-21 00:00:00

Poi:table Cisterns and Portable Filters of all Dimensions. 1
BY HIS MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT.
THE prevailing opinion of the impurity of the
Water supplied to the Inhabitants of this City, is
so well founded, and so amply borne out by the numerous
Testimonials of the most Eminent of the Metropolitan
Faculty, that any comment in this place would appear
like questioning the national common sense. We will
therefore confine our observations to the evidence given by
Dr. JAMES Jon NSON and Dr. KERRISON, in their exa-
mination in the House of Commons.
Dr. JAMES JOHNSON, the author of the " Treatise on
Indigestion," pronounces the water to be disgusting to the
sight, and the effluvia to affect the senses.
And he thus concludes—" We sneer," says the doctor,
" at the delicacy of the Hindoo, who slakes his thirst at
the same tank where his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina
but what shall we say to the delicate citizens of Westmin-
ster, who fill their tanks and stomachs with water from
the Thames, at that very spot into which a hundredthau-
xand cloaca, containing EVERY SPECIES OF FILTH AND
ALL UNUTTERABLE THINGS, are daily di.gorging their
hideous and abominable contents. It is absolutely asto-
nishing, that in these days of refinement, and in a Metro-
polis whose inhabitants pride themselves on-delicacy and
cleanliness, a practice should obtain, at which posterity
will shudder, if they can credit it."
Dr. KERRISON makes us acquainted with a fact, the
perusal of which will excite the same disgust in the mind
of the reader, is we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in-
specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
he says he saw " the foul and black stream from the. Rane-
lagh sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine
and the Dolphin, loaded with no small portion of UNDIVIDED
FLOATING FILTH FROM PRIVIES;" front which he con-
cludes, that " a considerable quantity of human excre-
ment, in a subdivided and undecomposed state, actually
passes inte our cisterns."
This mode of Filtration not only clarifies, but purifies,
the most turbid, fetid, stagnant water, rendering it of a
crystalline brilliancy, and at the same time most effectually
destroying both SMELL and TASTE. Its adaptation to
Cisterns enhances its valuable qualities, by obviating the
trouble of repeatedly charging it as heretofore, and
ensures an effectual preventive against the possibility of
employing any other Water than that which has passed the
Filter, either for Culinary operations, or in fact for any
domestic purposes. The rapidity of the process of Filtra •
Lion, stands conspicuous amongst its advantages. The Pro-
prietor does not state the precise number of Gallons capable of
being produced ; but is enabled confidently to assert that so
fast as the Water is supplied at the top of the Filter, so fast
will it discharge itself from the bottom in a highly purified
state.—lts moderate Price, (from Three Guineas upwards,
but rarely exceeding Six, in proportion to the dimensions
of Cisterns) by rendering it attain:Ode to all Housekeepers,
confers a real blessing on Society, by at once removing the
cause of a multitude of Diseases, which are justly attri-
butable to the noxious particles contained in the Water.
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To accommodate Private Families who desire to have
Portable Filters, it is respectfully suggested that they are
to be had of all dimensions at the Office iu the Strand, and
are forwarded to all parts of England.