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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
Newington 1892
Thirty-seventh annual report of the proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London...
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Dr. Frankland's Averages for 1892, as Supplied to the Registrar-General.
The numbers in this Table relate to 100,000 parts of each Water.
| Companies or Local Authorities. | Temperature in Centigrade Degrees. | Total Solid Matters. | Organic Carbon. | Organic Nitroeen. | Ammonia. | Nitrogen, as Nitrates and Nitrites. | Total Combined Ni trogen. | Chlorine. | Total Hardness. | ProportionalAmount of Organic Elements, that in the KentCompy's Waterduring the 9 years ending Dec. 1876, being taken as 1. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle Inner Circle. | Thames. Raw River "Water | 29.20 | .260 | .034 | .008 | .162 | .226 | 1.9 | 20.1 | 5.0 | |
| Chelsea | 11.1 | 28.34 | .170 | .020 | 0 | .204 | .224 | 1.8 | 200 | 3.2 | |
| West Middlesex | 10.3 | 28.74 | .181 | .022 | 0 | .211 | .233 | 1.8 | 20.4 | 3.3 | |
| Southwark | 11.6 | 29.82 | .178 | .024 | 0 | .214 | .239 | 1.8 | 21.0 | 3.4 | |
| Grand Junction | 11.8 | 29.50 | .179 | .025 | 0 | .213 | .237 | 1.8 | 20.9 | 3.5 | |
| Lambeth | 11.2 | 30.34 | .181 | .023 | 0 | .255 | .278 | 1.9 | 21.2 | 3.5 | |
| Lea. Raw New River water. | |||||||||||
| New River | |||||||||||
| 30 40 | 100 | 016 | |||||||||
| East London | 11 3 | 3262 | 155 | •024 | 0 | 215 •256 | •260 •280 | 2 0 20 | 22 1 | 43 30 | |
| Deep "Wells. | |||||||||||
| \ Kent | 40.93 | ||||||||||
| Tottenham | |||||||||||
| East London | — | 28 66 | •092 | •014 | •005 | 019 | 038 | 30 | 19-2 | 1-8 | |
Note. — The numbers in these tables may be converted into grains per
imperial gallon, by multiplying them by 7, and then moving the decimal
point one place to the left.