The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-02

OF New Orleans drink either cistern water OF
river water, and it Is of great importance that
these should be pure. But are these pure?
Cisterns furnish the people ut large most
every, year there is moro or less water fam
inc. When the reliance is upon cistern water,
families are often on short allowance or have
none, ana ii SO fortunate as to have neigh
Dor with an extra cistern, borrow from him
drantt, resort to that and II not, cart it to the
dwelling Through carts, CUTTERS hydrants,
borrowing and short allowance, people man
age 9. , to scrape through; doing with limited
arn;ng can;g s less washing ,, nnd no bathing Dis
becomes scarce and bad, but with rainy
weather comes plbnty of water and with
plenty OF water forgetfulness that they ever
were in want Of it.
ed and where recourse Is had TO that alone, 1t
necessarily follows that it's use for other do
mestic purposes cannot be in proportion to
the demands Of comfort and health. 1t is not
on the score Of quantity on y that we object
to it; 1t like other water Is liable to be contain
mated by impurities and is generally
more. or less. contaminated. Dust from the
streets with it's varied matter, smoke from
foundrics. breweries and other ehimneys, all
settle on the house tops and are swept by rains
into the cstern.
This, generally placed In q situation favor
able to the collection of ef1iuvia proceeding
from the usual appentlane of dwellfnps seizas
with ayiditv ,Ipon them and also serves "a
condensers to other gasao,,s nrod,tcts alwavs
floating i'm the atmospbere of cites This wa.
ter has too. jts orrat1ic impurities whose
presence the nice operations of chemistrv arc
NOT reonired to reveal but are anrarant to
both sight and smell. MANY nersors oar, re-
call their perception of nm ,,nnleasanf odor
i'm this water aft sr a rain succeedin1 y drv
spell. This proceeds from the emission of
pas produced bv the ACCOMMODATION of organic
mattnr which fRo ,pofo, onntoine Wbn3 : va
oommonlv Lnnwn &c ,r;,aIa +oi,s I'D
other fnrma ~ ,n;,, ,o,sis 90 "h., ha
found in .,,nne+ ali ~ +ha o;stou,, 10 nn
water in tb;s nnrtion of I.op;aio,o r. 10 ,'roi'
ahlo that The ,yo,.,,o - +hi n,,i,nai i;f H"t
in the mir and are y tbrn,yn anu With tho
rains but In .vha4cyop ,,"t, tho,, orn w ;rtrn1
dnced there tbnu nra Manv 'v nna ,vaee % ,vapo
made of eistern waiter in 81 I o,,ie IN Tho T,oa ;,
1ses and in every snacirnon m nnir nal - IN ,notfar
was deteeted We u,ote fartbar ninnn tha
oninion If an eminont ec;entist IN rana5d To ~
tha noxio,,s nronerties acnmired hv water No a n
drink from Tho nreaonca in II ~ cyraanio MT
fer There is nd douht nf tbe "a fonf Ihot tho tho
cistern water II Now 1rlnons ;e taiptad viii
a sufficient sunnlv Of animal veoatabe min
oral md oaaepps snhsta nnas +f ronor,,rnn,d n
the m,r;asatinn ns tha ,gater before ,,an a,
drinI, We have aaid The great ao,ron of o., e,,,' "
plv to the neonle If New Orleans is tbe ~ ''p
e'' .,.e,-1'. Nv % 'no
hlsslSsiPPI RIVER WAT5,
which abounds in mineral and organic mat
ter. The amount Of its mineral constituents
at flood have been varfously estimated. Pro.
fessor Riddell put them down at 1-1000 part