The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-13 00:00:00

GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER
FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.
.HE Seavou of the Year is approaching when
-111- the public will have additional reason to congratulate
themselves upon this important and national invention. So
many attempts have been made to mislead the good folks of the
Metropolis, by pretending to sure 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 baying one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have
now no tort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUIME COM-
PLETE, and in giving it OUR UNQUALIFIEII 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 proof. 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 MOUSE 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 Hailord, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keats, Mr.
Thomas, Dr. Turner, Drs. Hume, Yates, Kerrison, Somer-
ville, Johnson, and Paris, &e. 84c.—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-
judieial to health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly
contribute to the production of that state of FAULTY DI-
ISINVILLON and IMPURITY of BLOOD; that it 38 SO FILTHY-
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
Rent into the cisterns during the hot weather frequently
became aunts PUTZLID ; and they have no doubt that the
continued nee of it WECHOUT F/LIBRING is capable of pro-
ducing deleterious effeent ; that the Thames.] water is ex-
tremely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, front the
great quantity of FILTHY MATTERS coarriatuat.rx youa-
tato SETO IT FROM NUILEROUS SEWERS ; and Dr. Ker-
iison makes us acquainted with a fact, the perusal of
which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the
reader, es we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in-
speeting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
he saw " the foul and black stream from the Ranelagh
sewer, passing between the Ceenpany's steam-engine and
the Dolphin, LOADED WVI4II NO SMALL PORTION OF sr:int-
VIDBia FLOATING rtvest PROM ?RPM/8 ;" from which he
soncludes, that " A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF HUMAN
tartan bore', EN A SUBD/VIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED
STATE, ACTUALLY PASSES INTO OUR ittsxEmes."
Dr. Somerville, the physician to Chelsea Hospital, states
the water to be very impure. " The tide," he says,
" :BUMS UP 'FHB MASS OF 131 PURITY TRODUCEZ BY ALL