The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-23 00:00:00

GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER
FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.

THE Season of the Year is approaching when
the public will have additional reason to congratulate
themselves upon this hnpertant and national invention. So
many attempts have been made to mislead thegood folks of the
Metropolis, by pretending to cure the crying evil of bad water,
without the least pretension, that we were amongst the
many who remained sceptical as to the pretensions of the
Royal Filter, until we were led to seek ocular demonstra-
tion by Laving one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have
now no sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUITE coat-
PLETE, and in giving it OUR UNQUALIFIED PRAISE.
The names of the highest professional talent in the Metro-
polis have given the strongest testimony, that they may be
considered, in the metropolitan city of London as an ab-
solute " God-send,"
but we will illustrate their opinions
by stubborn facts and proofs as strong as Holy Writ; and
first let us examine the state of the water, as now drank
by the thousand and ten thousand persons who have not
yet availed themselves of this Filter, and our readers will
bear in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence
given last season in
the BRITISH HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT.
The following eminent and learned men in their voca-
tions have given evidence, of which the following is ne-
cessarily a short extract, viz.:—
Sir Henry Halford, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keate, Mr.
Thomas, Dr. Turner, Drs. Hu:ne, Yates, Kerrison, Somer-
ville, Johnson, and Paris, &c. &c.—they pronounce the wa-
ter sent into their houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated,
with decayed vegetable matters, and other substances pre-
judicial to health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly
contribute to the production of that state of FAULTY DI-
GESTION and lA/PURITY Of BLOOD; that it is so runly
and IMPURE, as to be unfit for the breakfast table and
for culinary purposes, and that it adds so much to the other
unwholesome constituents of bread, as to render every
meal injurious to the health of thousands ; that the water
sent into the cisterns during the hot weather frequently
became QUITE PUTRID; and they have no doubt that the
continued use of it WITHOUT FILTERING is capable of pro-
ducing deleterious effects ; that the Thames water is ex-
tremely bad, fopl, dirty, and unwholesome, from the
great quantity of FILTHY MATTERS CONTINUALLY POUR-
ING INTO IT FROM NUMEROUS SEWERS; and Dr. Ker-
• risotr makes us acquainted with a fact; the perusal of
which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the
reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in-
specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
he saw " the foul and black stream from the Ranelagli
sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and
the Dolphin, LOADED WIT/I NO SMALL PORTION OF UNDI.
VHDti) FLOATING FILTH FROM PRIVIES;" from which, he
concludes, that " A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF HUMAN
EXCREMENT, IN A SUBDIVIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED
sraTx, ACTUALLY PASSES INTO OUR CISTERNS."
Dr. Somervi:le, the physician to Chelsea Hospital, state;
the water to be very impure. " The tide," he says,
" STIRS UP THE MASS OF IMPURITY TRODUCED AY ALL

UIAT IS CORRUPTIBLE IN THE ANIMAL AND VFGETABLE

woatt.), TOORTHun WITH THE NOMUDS FILTH OF Cl AS AND

OTURR MA 24 IJVA CTOR tES, kiAT CONSTANTLY }LOW INTO
THE THAMES FROM PATTERSSA DOWN TO GRAVESEND.'

Dr. James Johnson, the author of the Treatise ou In-
digestion," says—" We sneer at the .!elir.ecy of the
Minion, who slakes his thirst at the same tank where
his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina; but what shall
we sly to the DELICATE CITIZENS OF WEswmitcs,rha,
WHO FILL THEM TANKS AND STOMACHS WITH WA:-
TEM FROM THE THAMES, AT THW 'VERY SPOT INTO

WHICH A HUNDRED THOUSAND C 7.04 cdi,; CONTAINING
EVERY SPECIES Or num, AND ALL IT NUTTER A 111. E

THINGS, ARE DAILY DISOORGI.N-G THEIR HIDEOUS AND

ABo,,LcsaßrE CONTENTS,

The laq_Priofessional. gentleman to whGse evidence we