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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
Plumstead 1896
Third annual report 1896-7
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TABLE XI.
Certificate of Analysis of a Sample of Water taken from
Kent Company's Well, Park Road, Plumstead, by Professor
William Robkrt Smith, March 20tb, 1896.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERS.
| Color in 2-ft. Stratum | Faint blue |
| Suspended Matter | None |
| Taste | Normal |
| Odour (when heated to 100 F.) | Normal |
CHEMICAL CHARACTERS.
One gallon contains the following number of grains and decimal parts of a grain of the respective substances:—
| Total Solid Matter (dried at 120° C) | 42.0 |
| Loss on Ignition (after recarbonating) | 6.0 |
| Total Mineral Matter | 36.0 |
| Combined Chlorine | 2.8 |
| Combined Chlorine equal to Common Salt | 4.6 |
| Nitrogen as Nitrates | .25 |
| Nitrates | none |
| Ammonia | .0014 |
| Albumenoid Ammonia | .003 |
| Hardness (total) in degrees | 22.0 |
| Hardness permanent | 12.0 |