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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Uxbridge 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Uxbridge]

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7
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT.
Water.—The supply of water, which is obtained mainly from the Council's deep
borings, is constant, and the quality satisfactory, but the quantity at
present available is inadequate, recourse having to be made at the present
time to an additional supply from the Rickmansworth Valley Water
Company. Plans are being carried out to obtain, by additional headings,
a larger supply from a lower depth.
There is no known or suspected contamination of the water.

Table: Cross & Bevan, County Analysts, and reported on as follows:

Cross & Bevan, County Analysts, and reported on as follows:

Appearanceclear
Colourvery pale brown
Smellnone
Parts per 1OO.OOO
Total solids dried at 1oo° C25.28
Total solids ignited20.28
Chlorine1.70
Nitric Acidtrace
Nitrous Acidnil
Oxygen absorbednil
Free Ammonianil
Albuminoid Ammonia0.002

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Very high standard of organic purity.

Table: Soap Test :

Soap Test :

Temporary6.89.7
Basicity—as Ca Co314.5

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Rivers and Streams.— No pollution of the Rivers and Streams within the District
has been discovered.