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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 1894
[Thirty-ninth annual report of the proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London...]
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TABLE 11.
D r. F bankland's A verages for 1894, as S ufflied to the R egistrar- G eneral.
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 Nitrogen. | Ammonia. | Nitrogen, as Nitrates and Nitrites. | Total Combined Nitrogen. | Chlorine. | Total Hardness. | Proportional Amount of Organic Elements that in the Kent Company's Water during the 9 years ending Dec. 1876 being taken as 1. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inner Circle. | Thames. | o | |||||||||
| (Unfiltered Water) | 10.9 | 30.09 | .307 | .051 | .011 | .217 | .276 | 1.9 | 19.0 | 6.1 | |
| Chelsea | 11.7 | 28.27 | .182 | .022 | 0 | .214 | .236 | 1.9 | 18.5 | 3.6 | |
| West Middlesex | 10. 9 | 28.12 | .207 | .024 | 0 | .216 | .240 | 1.9 | 18.4 | 3.9 | |
| Soutliwark | 12. 6 | 29.90 | .217 | .027 | 0 | .216 | .243 | 1.9 | 18.9 | 4.1 | |
| Grand Junction | 12.3 | 28.90 | .202 | .021 | 0 | .226 | .242 | 1.9 | 18.9 | 3.8 | |
| Lambeth | 11.9 | 29.21 | .226 | .023 | 0 | .229 | .252 | 1.9 | 19.1 | 4.2 | |
| Lea. | |||||||||||
| (Unfiltered Water) | 11.6 | 30.59 | .136 | .027 | .005 | .251 | .282 | 1.7 | 20.1 | 2.8 | |
| New River | 11.5 | 29.85 | .083 | .011 | 0 | .242 | .253 | 1.7 | 20.1 | 1.6 | |
| (Unfiltered Water) | 11.6 | 34.26 | .239 | .045 | .014 | .246 | .303 | 2.1 | 22.1 | 4.8 | |
| East London | 11.8 | 32.19 | .153 | .021 | 0 | .223 | .244 | 2.1 | 20.0 | 2.9 | |
| Deep Wells. | |||||||||||
| Kent | 1.20 | 37.92 | .033 | .006 | 0 | .488 | .494 | 2.2 | 25.5 | 0.7 | |
| Outer Circle | Colne Valley | — | 18.95 | .103 | .020 | .046 | .492 | .549 | 2.3 | 7.4 | 2.1 |
| Tottenham | — | 41.20 | .066 | .013 | .048 | .025 | .077 | 2.9 | 23.5 | 1.4 | |
| East London | — | 32.12 | .078 | .016 | .018 | .020 | .051 | 2.3 | 19.4 | 1.6 | |
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.